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Uncommon Meetings - 7 Quick Tips for Better Results in Half the Time
by Ann Latham
How many total hours are you and your employees spending in meetings each month? What would it be worth to you if you could cut that time in half, dramatically improve the results, and reduce the number of attendees? Start saving that time and money now! Read this book today! Discover the: - Single most important rule for short, valuable meetings - One change that will make you a stronger meeting leader - Seven secrets to great results and finishing on time - Techniques to double the value of each attendee - Criteria for canceling meetings - Reasons most meetings are slow and painful despite having agendas. Don't attend another meeting without reading this book! |
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Managing the Mobile Workforce: Leading, Building, and Sustaining Virtual Teams
by David Clemons and Michael Kroth
In the global marketplace, people can work practically anywhere and anytime. Managing the Mobile Workforce shares stories about organizations that have taken the risk to unleash—literally—their workers from the chains of daily commutes, 9-to-5 business hours, and the same old cubicles they have sat in day after day, year after year, and even decade after decade. The authors deliver rock-solid guidance on the essentials for building, leading, and sustaining a highly productive virtual workforce. |
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Likeable Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, and Be Generally Amazing on Facebook (& Other Social Networks)
by Dave Kerpen
The secret to successful word-of-mouth marketing on the social web is easy: BE LIKEABLE. A friend’s recommendation is more powerful than any advertisement. In the world of Facebook, Twitter, and beyond, that recommendation can travel farther—and faster—than ever before. Likeable Social Media helps you harness the power of word-of-mouth marketing to transform your business. |
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The Elements of Power: Lessons on Leadership and Influence
by Terry R. Bacon
Power is a complex combination of one’s knowledge, expressiveness, history, character, and attraction, as well as one’s resources, position, network, and reputation. The Elements of Power examines how people use and lose power, how power works in organizations, and the relationship between power and leadership. Complete with a handy self-assessment, this fascinating book is an essential tool you can leverage to motivate, influence, and inspire others. |
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The Branded Mind: What Neuroscience Really Tells Us about the Puzzle of the Brain and the Brand
by Erik Du Plessis
In this, his second book, du Plessis explores what scientists have uncovered about the structure of the brain and how different parts of the brain interact. He investigates developments in neuroscience and neuromarketing and what lessons this holds for brand managers. What bearing do these developments have on current theories of consumer behavior? How can brain science contribute to marketing and brand-building strategies? |
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Better Under Pressure: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Themselves and Others
by Justin Menkes
Drawing on in-depth interviews with 150 CEOs from an array of industries, Menkes shows that great leaders strive relentlessly to maximize their own as well as their people's potential and possess three cornerstone attributes: (1) Realistic optimism, (2) Subservience to purpose and (3) Finding order in chaos. Personal and practical, this book is a potent resource for aspiring, emerging, and seasoned business leaders alike. Most mindful! (ed.) |
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The Rowers' Code: A Business Parable of How to Pull Together as a Team--and Win!
by Marilyn Krichko with Jane Rollinson
Based on an overwhelming response to more than a decade of successful workshops, The Rowers’ Code brings to life the authors’ unique perspective on organizational team-building, drawing on proven, real-world results. The Rowers’ Code dramatically portrays one company’s intense experience and presents a simple, actionable set of truths about teamwork and communication that can be applied to
every workplace scenario to supercharge performance. Great read! (ed.) |
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Full Engagement - Inspire, Motivate, and Bring Out the Best in Your People.
by Brian Tracy
Business success expert Brian Tracy shows managers how they can supercharge their employees' efforts. Packed with powerful, practical ideas and strategies, this eye opening guide explains how to: unlock the potential of each person; motivate and inspire employees to peak performance; trigger the 'X Factor' that maximizes productivity; drive out the fears that hold people back; create a high-trust work environment; set clear goals and objectives; and, recognize, reward, and reinforce in a way that energizes every employee. Practical and actionable! (ed.)
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Leadership is Dead: How Influence is Reviving It
by Jeremie Kubicek
This book shows that the key to effective leadership is learning how to influence in a way that engenders greater trust, stronger partnerships, and more impactful endeavors. Testimonial from Stephen R. Covey sums it up nicely: “Leadership is Dead effectively reveals that lasting power and influence stems only from a servant/leader mentality based on timeless principles and true character. This remarkable book is a bold jolt of CPR to a failing heart.” Excellent book! (ed.) |
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Knock 'em Dead - Secrets and Strategies for Success in an Uncertain World
by Martin Yate
I love Martin's no nonsense head-twisting style that will get you to take a good look in the mirror and really get your act together. From Martin: "Let me tell you a little about yourself. You didn't come here today for a good time. You came because you need to make changes. You need to get back to work, out of a dead-end job, or simply believe there's a better way to make a success out of your life. This I know: You came here because you want to change your life for the better. I won't waste your time." It's job search 101 and much more, from a master! (ed.) |
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Managers, Can You Hear Me Now?: Hard-Hitting Lessons on How to Get Real Results
by Denny Strigl and Frank Swiatek
From Rolf Dobelli: "Denny F. Strigl, former CEO and president of Verizon Wireless, is a no-holds-barred type of guy. Writing with performance consultant Frank Swiatek, Strigl offers straight-shooting advice for managers and those who aspire to the role. The authors lay out exactly what's required of you every day to become a great manager. They present no sweeping concepts or grand theories, and little here will surprise you. Nevertheless, the authors outline the proper activities, behaviors and characteristics of a quality manager." |
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Look at More: A Proven Approach to Innovation, Growth, and Change
by Andy Stefanovich
Designed to be an individual and organizational hands-on guide, Look At More focuses on the front end of the Inspiration–Creativity–Innovation continuum. Using Stefanovich's proven LAMSTAIH approach (Look At More Stuff, Think About It Harder), leaders and employees can develop the practical skills, leadership behavior, and cultural mindset to consistently create ideas and drive innovation. |
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Influencing Powerful People : Engage and Command the Attention of the Decision-Makers to Get What You Need to Succeed
by Dirk Schlimm
Dirk Schlimm, who has
frontline experience working with “largerthan-life” leaders, provides sixteen proven
rules for working successfully with the powerful
people in your life—whether your boss,
client, partner, ssociate, or international
counterpart.
It's about strategically managing and adapting
your everyday behavior so that the powerful
people in your life gain confidence in you,
appreciate your contribution, and listen to
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How Cool Brands Stay Hot: Branding to Generation Y
by Joeri Van den Bergh and Mattias Behrer
The authors address what drives Generation Y as consumers and how marketers can develop the right brand strategies to reach this generation of 16- 33 year olds. Their insights on consumer preferences of this new "Dot-com" generation are based on interviews with 5,000 Generation Y consumers. How Cool Brands Stay Hot contains guidance and checklists for marketing plans and campaigns, as well as case studies of Nokia, Nivea, PlayStation, Coca Cola, Volkswagen, Smirnoff, Red Bull, H&M, and Levi's. |
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The Amazement Revolution: Seven Customer Service Strategies to Create an Amazing Customer (and Employee) Experience
by Shep Hyken
In this sequel to the bestseller The Cult of the Customer, Shep Hyken delivers seven powerful strategies that any organization can implement to create greater customer and employee loyalty. Hyken shares more than one hundred insightful examples from fifty role-model companies that prove these strategies can and should be implemented immediately--by any organization, large or small.You can use his advice to build a successful, customer-focused organization and start your own Amazement Revolution! |
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A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing
edited by Paul Sloane
Open innovation and crowdsourcing are among the hottest topics in strategy and management today. The concept of capturing ideas in a hub of collaboration, together with the outsourcing of tasks to a large group of people or community is a revolution that is rapidly changing business culture. Written by an international team of the most eminent thinkers, writers and practitioners in the field, it's a vital read for anyone who wants to find innovative products and services from outside their organizations and overcome the practical difficulties that lie in the way. |
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Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals
by Heidi Grant Halvorson
Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorson offers insights - many surprising - that readers can use immediately, including how to:
set a goal so that you will persist even in the face of adversity, build willpower, which can be strengthened like a muscle, and avoid the kind of positive thinking that makes people fail. The strategies outlined in this book will not only help everyone reach their own goals but will also prove invaluable to parents, teachers, coaches, and employers. |
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The Devil’s Marriage: Break Up the Corpocracy or Leave Democracy in the Lurch
by Gary Brumback
The book's central theme is this: Americans are governed by an undemocratic and powerful regime that advances corporate and political self interests at a terrible cost to the American public. Current efforts to end the regime are totally inadequate. The only civil and lawful way to end it is to organize and unleash democracy power that leads to political, legislative, judicial, and economic reforms backed up by massive political pressure. Read more at www.democracypowernow.com.
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Workarounds That Work: How to Conquer Anything That Stands in Your Way at Work
by Russell Bishop
Russell Bishop teaches the art of the workaround:
a method for accomplishing a task or goal
when the normal process isn’t producing the
desired results. Workarounds help you break
through the tasks and systems that keep you
from the important stuff. They even help you
bring lasting change to your organization by
doing away with frustrating institutional inefficiencies
once and for all. The chapter on Death by Decision is guaranteed to "twist your head" to see how typical decision-making processes create more problems than they solve. An excellent read! |
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Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions
by Guy Kawasaki
Enchantment when done right, is more powerful than traditional persuasion, influence, or marketing techniques.
Kawasaki argues that in business and personal interactions, your goal is not merely to get what you want but to bring about a voluntary, enduring, and delightful change in other people. By enlisting their own goals and desires, by being likable and trustworthy, and by framing a cause that others can embrace, you can change hearts, minds, and actions. |
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Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life
by Joey Reiman
In 1994, Joey Reiman did something most would think unthinkable. He walked into a meeting with his Board of Directors and announced that he was shutting down his award-winning $100 million a year ad agency, to create an ideas company—to think for a living. His only product would be “ideas.” Steve Kayser has an excellent article and interview with the author here - Riffs, Tiffs and What Ifs. |
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WIKIBRANDS: Reinventing Your Company in a Customer-Driven Marketplace
by Sean Moffitt and Mike Dover
Whether you work with an established business and are looking to make it relevant to today's "wikiconsumers" or are launching a start-up from scratch, Wikibrands offers countless creative ideas for defining and reaching out to your target audience. You'll find refreshing new ways and a FLIRT model to help you open up an honest dialogue with your customers, attract a ready-made fan base through shared interests, and even work with other businesses toward a mutually rewarding goal. It's current and comprehensive. |
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Consider: Harnessing the Power of Reflective Thinking In Your Organization
by Daniel Patrick Forrester
The stories and examples within Consider demonstrate that the best decisions, insights, ideas and outcomes result when we take sufficient time to think and reflect. While technology allows us to act and react more quickly than ever before, we are taking increasingly less time to consider our decisions before we make them. Reflection supplies an arsenal of ideas and solutions to the right problems. Including interviews with leaders such as General David Petraeus, attorney Brooksley Born and global investor Kyle Bass, Forrester shows us that taking time and giving ourselves the mental space for reflection can mean the difference between total success and total failure.
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What Could Happen if You Do Nothing? A Manager's Handbook for Coaching Conversations
by Jane Murphy with Khatun Huber
What could happen if you do nothing? offers managers clear, usable tools to enhance the way they listen and engage their people. Mini-dialogues, sample questions, listening tips, and suggestions use familiar situations to show how to transform business challenges into coaching opportunities. This is an essential resource for developing employees to their full potential and for fostering better working relationships for individuals, teams, and the business itself. |
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Where Did That Come From?
Proven Tips to Manage The Almond Effect®
by Anne Riches
Have you ever ‘just lost it’? Or said or done something then wished the earth would swallow you whole in your total embarrassment or despair at what just happened? Have you used phrases like: I went completely nuts! I was so angry I couldn’t think straight. I don’t know what came over me.
If you answered ‘yes’ to any of those questions then “Where Did That Come From?” is for you. Anne Riches tells us what causes these potentially embarrassing and derailing moments in our lives, at work and at home.
Anne explains The Almond Effect ®, the neuroscientific reason behind these moments and then shares proven strategies so that you can stay in control when situations get out of hand. |
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Make Your Own Rules: A Renegade Guide to Unconventional Success
by Wayne Rogers, with Josh Young
Wayne Rogers, better know for his role in M*A*S*H, shares the keys to his success over the past four decades, revealing that you don’t have to be “against the system” in order to succeed; you just have to avoid becoming a cog in a machine. Filled with insights and engaging stories he encourages you to stop asking “Why?” and start saying “Why not?” when it comes to your career and business. Rogers has made a name for himself in countless businesses where the only constant was that he lacked the traditional background and experience—proving time and time again that the secret to making it lies in tapping into your own creative viewpoint. |
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Louder Than Words: Ten Practical Employee Engagement Steps That Drive Results
by Bob Kelleher
Thought leader and speaker Bob Kelleher distills vital employee engagement principles, culled from his many years of experience, into ten practical and transformative steps that will help companies maximize employee engagement - the key to capturing discretionary effort. While highlighting win-win engagement solutions, the author makes a case for creating and maintaining a corporate culture that attracts and retains the most productive and creative people. |
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Million Dollar Consulting
by Alan Weiss
Completely updated for today’s busier-than-ever consultants, this classic guide covers the ins and
outs for competing and winning in this ultracompetitive field. You’ll find step-by-step advice on how
to raise capital, attract clients, create a marketing plan, and grow your business into a $1 million-per-year
firm, plus brand-new material on blogging and social networking, global consulting, delegating labor, profiting in a troubled market, retainer business and internet marketing. It's an excellent resource. |
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Harper's Rules: A Recruiter's Guide to Finding a Dream Job and the Right Relationship
by Danny Cahill
Danny Cahill offers effective, insider tips, packaged in an intimate and funny parable. As you follow successful executive Casey Matthews through the rough waters of a recent divorce, a job she doesn't like, insensitive interviewers, the rigors of contemporary dating, and high-pressure career advancement, you'll discover the rules that can change your life. The all-knowing but charming headhunter Harper Scott rescues Casey with the essential tools of job hunting and dating. Harper's Rules is a funny and riveting story that will help you make smart decisions about landing your next--your best--job or relationship. |
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The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Organizational Development
by Stephen Balzac
Change comes fast, and the most successful organizations are prepared to handle it before impact; they act, not react. How are they able to do this? With a solid grounding in organizational development. The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Organizational Development is a skill-building guide to one of the most important functions in business today. In no time, you'll be able to recognize patterns of organizational behavior that are detrimental to your organization,
and you'll have the skills to envision and drive the type of change your company needs. It's an excellent synthesis and one of the best books of the year! (ed.) |
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What Investors Really Want: Know What Drives Investor Behavior and Make Smarter Financial Decisions
by Meir Statman
Combining the new field of behavioral finance with the real world of investing, this engaging new book explores the mind-sets and motivations behind the major money decisions—and most common mistakes—that investors make every day.
You'll discover
how behavioral finance provides key insights into the behavior that has rocked investment markets in recent years. And, most important, you'll learn to recognize the desires, thoughts, and emotions that drive your own investment decisions—so you can drive better on your road to investment success. |
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Selling to Anyone Over the Phone
by Renee P. Walkup, with Sandra L. McKee
Whether you’re a seasoned telesales professional or a newcomer just pulled in from the field, Selling to Anyone Over the Phone is the one book that will radically improve your sales numbers, no matter what the product or how bad the economy.
It’s packed with all-new chapters on using cutting-edge technology— such as delivering engaging presentations via webinars and teleconferencing as well as composing text messages that are appropriate and effective—and on communicating with people from diverse cultures and countries to close more deals. |
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The Network Is Your Customer: Five Strategies to Thrive in a Digital Age
by David L. Rogers
Marketing expert David Rogers examines how digital technologies—from smartphones to social networks—connect us in frameworks that transform our relationships to business and each other. To thrive today, organizations need new strategies—strategies designed for customer networks. The book outlines a process for planning and implementing a customer network strategy to match your customers, your business, and your objectives—whether you need to drive sales, to enhance innovation, to reduce costs, to gain customer insight, or to build breakthrough products and services. |
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Slow Down, Sell Faster!: Understand Your Customer's Buying Process and Maximize Your Sales
by Kevin Davis
Customers don't care about your selling process. They are moving through their own buying process, a set of predictable steps that doesn't match how most salespeople sell. Davis' eight-step method unleashes the power of slowing down each sales conversation, asking more questions, identifying needs, and supplying solutions—in the right sequence, with the right approaches. It's an especially effective formula for high-stakes sales involving multiple decision-makers that delivers big rewards. |
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Smarter Than the Street: Invest and Make Money in Any Market
by Gary Kaminsky
Kaminsky brings more than two decades of experience
to his low-risk, high-return system, demystifying
Wall Street for novice and seasoned investors
alike. Between 1999 and 2008, Kaminsky’s team
at Neuberger Berman grew record-breaking returns
far above the S&P benchmark. And they didn’t do
it by magic. They did it by constructing a specific strategy and sticking to it, regardless of the investing
climate. It is a strategy that anyone can learn
and apply, step-by-step, in any market. |
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Now, Build a Great Business!: 7 Ways to Maximize Your Profits in Any Market
by Mark Thompson and, Brian Tracy
Thompson and Tracy offer easy, tried-and-true ways to think about and plan organizational growth, especially in tough economic times. In seven steps, the authors identify sustainable strategies for attracting customers and recruiting better leaders. They share seven simple questions that leaders ask themselves and provide helpful checklist exercises on a variety of key topics including creating a great business plan, designing an effective marketing plan, and creating a good customer experience. While much of what's covered is simple and straightforward, readers will find the practical aspects and clear organization of this book particularly useful. |
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The Last Economic Superpower: The Retreat of Globalization, the End of American Dominance, and What We Can Do About It
by Joseph P. Quinlan
The chief market strategist for Bank of America's Global Wealth and Investment Management unit meticulously examines governmental and business reactions to the recent recession. He argues compellingly that globalization and free-market capitalism are in retreat—and that major alterations to present strategies are necessary to avoid an economic “cold war.” The solution, Quinlan asserts, is a cooperative effort on the part of the United States with emerging countries, such as China, to shape a new economy that promotes world-wide economic growth and reduces the risks of wars and cross-border conflicts. |
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Love at Work: Why Passion Drives Performance in the Feelings Economy
by Brady G. Wilson
Love at Work foments a revolution for workplaces of every description and in every industry: a revolution in which leaders understand that engaging people's hearts trumps engaging their minds. Wilson shows how leaders who love: believe in their people; pull out their highest good; serve their success; and challenge them to stress. When people's felt needs are met they release the energy that triggers discretionary effort — 400% more effort, according to the Corporate Leadership Council. The principles in this cutting-edge book are sure to change the face of the workplace for years to come. |
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More Time for You: A Powerful System to Organize Your Work and Get Things Done
by Rosemary Tator and Alesi Latson
Why does it seem like no matter how you try to organize your work and your life, you never get less busy? Why are so many "time savers" really just time drains? And most important, what can you do about it? More Time for You is the answer.This potentially life-changing book spells out a proven and powerful system to help you get and stay organized, prioritize responsibilities, get things done faster, and have more time away from the phone, e-mail, office, paperwork-whatever it is that's interfering with your productivity and your life. |
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Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets it Right
by Dal LaMagna
Raising Eyebrows is a great American business story that offers insight into what it takes to build a strong and ethical company — whether it’s a one-person operation or a global company. One walks away with the certainty that a profitable beach parking lot is every bit as worthy as a multinational manufacturing business, as long as you are happy, making money, treating your coworkers and clients well, and being socially responsible. It’s a good message for today’s unemployed and underemployed workers who have a modest entrepreneurial dream and the strong desire to make working for themselves a reality.
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Instant Recess: Building a Fit Nation 10 Minutes at a Time
by Toni Yancey
Instant Recess is an excellent, easy to read, informative book describing how we must all change our lifestyle patterns and incorporate activity into our day. Yancey poignantly shows why 'instant recesses' are needed by corporate Americans, educators, public health and medical professionals. This isn't just a simple how-to book, but also a how-come.—Francine Kaufman, Head of the Center for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles |
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Black Faces in White Places: 10 Game-Changing Strategies to Achieve Success and Find Greatness
by Randal Pinkett, Jeffrey Robinson and Philana Patterson
Based on interviews with dozens of prominent African Americans and the authors' considerable experience in business, in the public eye, and in the minority, Black Faces in White Places shows how as an African-American professional you can (and must) think and act both entrepreneurially and "intrapreneurially"; combine the strengths of your peers with the wisdom of others; and plant the seeds of a positive and lasting legacy. |
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Breakthrough!: A 7-Step System for Developing Unexpected and Profitable Ideas
by Paul Kurnit, Steve Lance
Breakthrough! reveals that there are actually systematic initiatives you and your company can implement to create, nurture, and develop unique and powerful ideas. These are the kinds of ideas that drive profitable new processes, products, and services that capture the public's imagination and dramatically grow businesses. Breakthrough! supplies you with the techniques and procedures wildly successful companies use to consistently arrive at and launch the kind of industry-changing ideas that make consumers sit up and take notice. |
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About Face: The Secrets of Emotionally Effective Advertising
by Dan Hill
Scientists and psychologists now argue that people are emotional, not rational, decision-makers. Grounded in psychology and neurobiology as well as a study of advertising tactics, this new book from Dan Hill (author of Emotionomics) provides ten rules that enables companies and advertising agencies to be more effective. Using data from eye-tracking and facial coding to analyse consumer responses, it demonstrates exactly which advertising strategies are successful and why. |
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CEO Priorities: Master the Art of Surviving at the Top
by Neil Giarratana
CEO Priorities provides direct, specific, and valuable real-world advice and insights for CEOs and aspiring CEOs or executives, supported by relevant stories couched in humor and irony.Neil Giarratana takes you inside the CEO's office and lays out a top executive's priorities--get these right...or else! He covers the key areas that must be handled well and with smarts, and explains in detail how to do it. Weaving in examples from his 30-plus years of experience, Giarratana packs CEO Priorities full of fascinating, surprising, and always relevant information. |
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Management? It's Not What You Think!
by Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel
Henry Mintzberg, one of today’s most respected and controversial thinkers on management, has joined forces with other leading business figures to provide a provocative and unusual mix of writing on management. Management? gets readers thinking as they never have before about the practice of management. Readers will find differing perspectives—and plenty of food for thought—on topics including management terminology and buzz words; myths and maxims; MBAs; management fads; leadership; strategy; and much more. |
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The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs: Insanely Different Principles for Breakthrough Success
by Carmine Gallo
When it comes to innovation, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is legendary. His company slogan "Think Different" is more than a marketing tool. It's a way of life—a powerful, positive, game-changing approach to innovation that anyone can apply to any field of endeavor. By following Steve Jobs's visionary example, you'll discover exciting new ways to unlock your creative potential and to foster an environment that encourages innovation and allows it to flourish. |
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The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success
by Scott Eblin
Every day, high performers are tapped to be executives and then left alone to figure out how to function successfully in their new role. When this happens, most new executives rely on strengths that served them well earlier in their careers. As executive coach Scott Eblin explains, this is why 40 percent of them fail. Moving successfully to the executive level requires knowing which behaviors and beliefs to drop, as well as which new ones to pick up. Like having a personal executive coach, this confidence-building book outlines a program for success for new and future executives and offers frank advice from accomplished senior executives on what to do and to avoid. |
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Conversations for Change: 12 Ways to Say it Right When It Matters Most
by Shawn Kent Hayashi
Whether you’re trying to motivate a team, negotiate a contract, make a sale, ask for a raise, land a new job, or terminate an employee, the conversations you have will either help you succeed or undermine your goals. Communication expert and leadership coach Shawn Kent Hayashi has spent more than two decades studying how the things people say impact their business and professional lives. In her new book she not only identifies the twelve most important types of conversations people have, but shows readers how to reach their maximum potential by using these conversations effectively. |
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Get-It-Done Guy's 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More
by Stever Robbins
Millions of people already benefit from the innovative, time-saving tips that Stever Robbins dispenses each week in his #1 ranked Get-It-Done Guy podcast. Now he’s come up with a 9-step plan to transform even the most overwhelmed into an overachiever. Written in the uniquely humorous style Stever is known for, Get-It-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More will help you break the bad habits slowing you down and holding you back. Work less and do more—your free time is waiting! |
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Operational Leadership
by Andrew Spanyi
Confronted by current and anticipated business challenges, incremental improvements to operations, while still important, will no longer be sufficient to gain advantage. This book outlines the needed evolution in leadership attitudes and behaviors in the key operational areas such as new product development, sales, operations, customer service, human resources, finance, and information technology. Relying on concepts introduced by Dr. John Kotter, Dr. G. Rummler & Alan Brache, Dr. Tom Davenport, and Dr. Michael Hammer, this new book updates this body of knowledge and presents a framework for action in an easy to read, actionable format. |
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The New Experts: Win Today's Newly Empowered Customers at Their 4 Decisive Moments
by Robert H. Bloom
Robert Bloom, a veteran CEO and respected authority on business strategy, tells readers how to win customers who no longer care where they buy. It explains how to give customers what they want when it matters most to them - at their 4 Decisive Moments during the purchase progression: the Now-or-Never Moment, Make-or-Break Moment, Keep-or-Lose Moment, and the highly profitable Multiplier Moment. The book turns today's most serious business challenge into a business-building advantage by providing a no- or low-cost solution to reduce costly customer churn and increase profitable customer conversion, retention, and referral. |
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Rethinking Risk: How Companies Sabotage Themselves and What They Must Do Differently
by Joseph W. Koletar
Rethinking Risk gives you a sobering, from-the-trenches account of real-life organizational risk. Packed with examples, interviews, and the eyewitness perspective of a seasoned risk management consultant and former high-ranking FBI professional, this fascinating page-turner is complete with suspenseful plots, behind-the-scenes detective work, and much-needed advice on how to deal with risks before they escalate—or prevent problems from happening in the first place. |
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The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making, and Getting Things Done
by Peter Miller
Based on extensive globe-trotting research, this lively tour from National Geographic reporter Peter Miller introduces thriving throngs of ant colonies, which have inspired computer programs for streamlining factory processes, telephone networks, and truck routes; termites, used in recent studies for climate-control solutions; schools of fish, on which the U.S. military modeled a team of robots; and many other examples of the wisdom to be gleaned about the behavior of crowds-among critters and corporations alike. (Fascinating read and one of the best of the year! ed.)
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Wander Woman: How High-Achieving Women Find Contentment and Direction
by Marcia Reynolds
Wander Woman explores how generational shifts and changing expectations of working women have fostered a new kind of restlessness among many. Through real-life stories she reveals the hopes and dreams, disappointments and challenges this group of high-achieving women are facing. And, most importantly, she provides exercises and development strategies for readers as they make their journey to peace and finally come to rest with a strong sense of identity and purpose. |
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Stick Out Your Balance and Cough: Best Practices for Long-Term Business Health
by Gary W. Patterson
Gary Patterson details the proven methods he's used to successfully treat companies of all sizes across a range of industries. Using the FiscalDoctor's Best Practices, the high-growth company you own, manage or direct can avoid unnecessary increased expenses, revenue shortfalls, employee layoffs, missed bonuses or broken dreams.
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Generations, Inc.: From Boomers to Linksters - Managing the Friction Between Generations at Work
by Meagan Johnson and Larry Johnson
How do you manage the confluence of Woodstock Nation and the Facebook Generation—and everything in between?
Authors Meagan Johnson and Larry Johnson are walking examples of this challenge. A father-and-daughter consulting team whose points of view only sometimes coincide, they have developed powerful solutions to many of the seemingly intractable problems of intergenerational conflict. |
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It's Not Just Who You Know: Transform Your Life (and Your Organization) by Turning Colleagues and Contacts into Lasting, Genuine Relationships
by Tommy Spaulding
In this candid, revealing book, Tommy expands upon the principles that Dale Carnegie outlined 75 years ago, and shows us how to take them one step further to accomplish the impossible in our lives and careers. To invite others to be genuine partners in our lives and success, Tommy explains, you have to first be interested in other people. It’s not just who you know, or what they can do for you, but what you can do for them. Motives matter. Establishing a deeper connection is about authenticity, not manipulation. Reciprocity, not selfishness. Every relationship is a two-way street; we never know when a chance encounter can change the direction of our life. |
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Make Work Great: Super Charge Your Team, Reinvent the Culture, and Gain Influence One Person at a Time
by Edward G. Muzio
Whether you are a mid-level manager or a senior executive, Make Work Great offers the blueprint for building a positive, motivating, and productive workplace in any kind of organization. In this definitive guide fortoday’s multicultural, decentralized business environment, Ed Muzio, award-winning author, internationally recognized workplace improvement expert, and consultant, delivers state-of-the-art analysis, advice and guidance, and scores of team-building and motivation exercises that you andyour staff can do in ten minutes a day--without disrupting routines or interrupting important business. |
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Nice Teams Finish Last: The Secret to Unleashing Your Team's Maximum Potential
by Brian Cole Miller
Don't rock the boat. Don't make waves. Don't offend anyone. There's a palpable feeling that clouds many team meetings and keeps them from being productive: over-politeness. And while the conflict that naturally exists in most organizations hasn't gone away, it manifests itself in passive-aggression, mediocrity, and a molasseslike inability to get anything done.
Nice Teams Finish Last provides the antidote to this all-too-common tendency, giving managers, team leaders and members, and facilitators the practical support they need to battle "the nice trap" and start getting results! |
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The Experience Effect: Engage Your Customers with a Consistent and Memorable Brand Experience
by Jim Joseph
Whether it's online, offline, or at the retail level, The Experience Effect shows you how to link your advertising, packaging, website, messaging and more to create a memorable and appealing experience for customers. When all these elements come together to form a seamless experience, the customer is left with a feeling of satisfaction that ultimately builds loyalty. Jim Joseph calls this ideal combination the "experience effect," and in this book he shows how any business can create one for its brand. |
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Bright Triumphs from Dark Hours: Turning Adversity Into Success
by David Heenan
Bright Triumphs From Dark Hours examines the lives of ten extraordinary people who overcame great adversity in their personal or professional lives by applying winning strategies that guided them out of the darkness of near-defeat and into the light of success. In these inspiring stories Heenan identifies key strategies that helped each person stay upbeat in the swirling vortex of tough times. The final chapter outlines these practices in greater detail and explains how they can be used to create personal roadmaps to negotiate life's darkest hours - from which come its greatest successes, its brightest triumphs. |
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The On-Demand Brand: 10 Rules for Digital Marketing Success in an Anytime, Everywhere World
by Rick Mathieson
The most successful campaigns of late have spoken to consumers in a way that's interesting and engaging beyond the scope of the product itself (e.g., Burger King's Subservient Chicken site) or possess shock-value (e.g., Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty) or provide entertainment beyond the scope of the hard sell. Through persuasive arguments and Q &A's with the major players in advertising, Mathieson makes an excellent case for greater creativity and outside-the-box thinking backed up with solid ideas. |
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No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline
by Brian Tracy
Each of the 21 chapters in this book shows you how to be more disciplined in one aspect of your life, with end-of-chapter exercises to help you apply the “no excuses” approach to your own life. With these guidelines, you can learn how to be more successful in everything you do—instead of wistfully envying others who you think are just “luckier” than you. A little self-discipline goes a long way...so stop making excuses and read this book! |
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Marketing in the Moment: The Practical Guide to Using Web 3.0 Marketing to Reach Your Customers First
by Michael Tasner
Web marketing consultant Michael Tasner has written the definitive practical guide to driving maximum value from next-generation Web, online, mobile, and social marketing. Drawing from his innovative marketing techniques, Tasner has written the first book on what he calls Web 3.0 marketing. Tasner helps marketers, entrepreneurs, and managers move beyond hype and high-level strategy to proven tactics and successful ground-level execution. |
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Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead
by Charlene Li
Charlene Li (the coauthor of the blockbusting bestseller Groundswell) offers the next step resource that shows leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be "open" while maintaining control. By embracing social media, leaders can transform their organizations to become more effective, decisive, and ultimately more profitable in this new era of openness in the marketplace. (Leaders must let go to gain more, and Charlene provides an excellent roadmap! ed.) |
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Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit: The Secrets of Building a Five-Star Customer Service Organization
by Leonardo Inghilleri and Micah Solomon
Leonardo Inghilleri and Micah Solomon reveal the secrets of providing online and offline customer service so superior it nearly guarantees loyalty. Their anticipatory customer service approach was first developed at The Ritz-Carlton as well as at Solomon's company Oasis, and has since proven itself in count less companies around the globe—from luxury giant BVLGARI to value-sensitive auto parts leader Carquest, and everywhere in between. (One of the best of the year! ed.) |
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Leadership Secrets of Hillary Clinton
by Rebecca Shambaugh
Few understand better than Hillary Clinton what it's like to fight uphill battles. Yet, despite her uncanny tendency to draw fire, she has achieved remarkable success, working her way up from first lady to U.S. Secretary of State. Leadership Secrets of Hillary Clinton examines Clinton's leadership techniques and explains how to get results by putting them to work in your own environment. Rebecca Shambaugh breaks down Clinton's powerful leadership style into easy-to-understand parts, each of which is imperative for successfully leading an organization through periods of intense change. |
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Anywhere: How Global Connectivity is Revolutionizing the Way We Do Business
by Emily Nagle Green
Welcome to the world of ubiquitous connectivity. Anywhere is the next business revolution, a sea-change that will allow businesses to reach five billion customers, many of them in untapped global markets. In Anywhere, Emily Nagle Green, CEO of Yankee Group Research, explains the rapidly unfolding changes in connectivity—and presents the first strategic guide for remaking businesses now to take advantage of this “anywhere, anytime…” revolution. Excellent and one of the best of the year! (ed.) |
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How the Best Leaders Lead: Proven Secrets to Getting the Most Out of Yourself and Others
by Brian Tracy
How the best leaders lead people is the book's core topic. Tracy talks about real world leadership and delivers nuclear-powered ideas for being the best leader you can be. The world sorely needs better leaders. Brian's book fills that need well, guiding you with "seven basic responsibilities of leadership" to be your best. (Mark LaMoure) |
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The Gettysburg Approach to Writing and Speaking Like a Professional
by Philip A. Yaffe
Effective writing and speaking are critical for all students and professionals in this challenging and competitive world. Professional level writing and speaking depend on only a handful of easy-to-understand principles.
The Gettysburg Approach goes straight to the foundations, defines these principals and explains how to apply them.
Through a variety of examples and simple exercises, this exceptional guide will help anyone sharpen their skills and rapidly learn to write and speak clearly, concisely, and persuasively. |
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The Earth's Best Story: A Bittersweet Tale of Twin Brothers Who Sparked an Organic Revolution
by Ron Koss and Arnie Koss
The Earth's Best Story is a bittersweet tale about the founding of Earth's Best Baby Foods twenty-five years ago. Told through the dual narrative of each brother, this is not a business tome, although it is rich in entrepreneurial lessons and know-how. Rather, it's more like a "how to," “how not to,” and “how they did it” memoir. It's personal, it's intense, it's inspirational, and it's full of reflections and tales of wonder and woe. |
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Happiness at Work: Maximizing Your Psychological Capital for Success
by Jessica Pryce-Jones
Pryce-Jones explains what psychological capital and happiness at work are and how you can go about getting more of both. Along the way, she demystifies the latest research, illustrating her findings with a fascinating array of over 80 revealing interviews with people all over the world: business leaders and politicians, particle physicists and philosophers, sheep farmers and bankers, to name just a few. The result is a unique strategy with five components that build your happiness at work and help you to achieve your potential. |
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Robert's Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival
by Robert F. Brands with Martin J. Kleinman
Innovation, the key to your company's survival, must be encoded in your corporate DNA. It is an imperative—because you can bet your competitors are going at Innovation full-throttle.
Robert's Rules of Innovation chronicles decades' worth of collective, invaluable experience contributed by Innovation guru Robert Brands and his international network of Innovate-For-Success experts. Get passionate about creativity. Prepare to unleash your team's abilities. Create the next home-run new product. Read a review by Jeff Lindsay. |
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The Risk Takers: 16 Women and Men Who Built Great Businesses Share Their Entrepreneurial Strategies For Success
by Renee Martin and Don Martin
The Risk Takers is about ordinary people, all with good ideas, who faced daunting challenges, but took a leap of faith and started their own business. The book tells the stories of the personal and professional journeys of sixteen fascinating men and women who built hugely successful, multimillion dollar companies. They started with very little, opted to strike out on their own, and struggled with disappointment and failure. Yet, they overcame adversity and through persistence and resiliency determined their own destiny. Great read! |
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Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal
by Mark W. Johnson
Johnson lays out an eminently practical framework that identifies the four fundamental building blocks that make business models work. In a series of in-depth case studies, he goes on to vividly illustrate how companies are using innovative business models to seize their white space and achieve transformational growth by fulfilling unmet customer needs in their current markets; serving entirely new customers and creating new markets; and responding to tectonic shifts in market demand, government policy, and technologies that affect entire industries. |
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The Lean Machine: How Harley-Davidson Drove Top-Line Growth and Profitability with Revolutionary Lean Product Development
by Dantar P. Oosterwal
Packed with little-known details about how the company came to reinvent the way it designs new products, and a broad overview of the fertile corporate climate that made it possible, The Lean Machine uncovers the power of Knowledge-Based Product Development to achieve predictable, positive results, without having to continually fix late-breaking problems and full-blown crises. It's a formula for outstanding success that can be replicated or adapted to fit your own company's needs. |
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BUSINESS TOOLS??? – Executive Guide to What Social Media Tools work for Business and Why
by Blaine W. Millet and Clayton N. Loges
This excellent ebook provides a practical
overview of what Social Media really is and how it is relevant to those who run businesses. The authors present a description and explanation of the key “tools” of social media and which ones are best for business, an introduction to the “mind shift” that must take place to effectively use Social Media in a business
and a dozen key “take-away’s” that can change your business starting today. You can get a copy of the ebook free for a limited time by visiting their website. Enjoy! |
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Now, Discover Your Strengths
by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton
Marcus Buckingham, coauthor of the national bestseller First, Break All the Rules, and Donald O. Clifton, Chair of the Gallup International Research & Education Center, have created a revolutionary program to help readers identify their talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy consistent, near-perfect performance. At the heart of the book is the Internet-based StrengthsFinder® Profile, and the book contains a unique identification number that allows you access to the StrengthsFinder Profile on the Internet. With profound insights on how to turn talents into strengths, Now, Discover Your Strengths is one of the most useful business books ever written. We have added it to The CEO Refresher's Best Books of All Time! (ed.) |
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When Turtles Fly: Secrets of Successful People Who Know How To Stick Their Necks Out
by Nikki Stone
Along with anecdotes from her own dramatic journey, Olympic gold medalist Nikki Stone has compiled a treasure trove of compelling stories to illustrate each step on the path to success. She’s gathered humorous, heartwarming and hugely inspirational tales from some of today’s most brilliant business leaders, scientists, soldiers, inventors, philanthropists, musicians, athletes and entrepreneurs…a host of people whose very names epitomize achievement. An excellent read! Great work Nikki! |
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Career GPS: Strategies for Women Navigating the New Corporate Landscape
by Ella L.J. Edmondson Bell Ph.D., with Linda Villarosa
Drawing from her work as a consultant to some of the country's most prestigious Fortune 100 companies, Dr. Bell helps readers succeed at every level in a dynamic corporate marketplace. Career GPS combines Dr. Bell's academic knowledge and expertise with dozens of heartfelt first-person stories from smart women who rose through the ranks. Here is a book that will guide women of all cultures, ages, and levels of experience to their career goals. An excellent read! |
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Master Your Debt
by Jordan E. Goodman, with Bill Westrom
Master Your Debt recommends many pioneering strategies as it lays out an innovative plan for achieving the elusive goal of financial success. The book is filled with helpful web sites, toll free numbers, associations and government agencies, and vetted companies and services to help you implement this advice. In today's volatile economy, getting out of debt is the key to surviving and thriving, and author Jordan Goodman provides you with the strategies and tools to live debt free. |
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Leadership
by Marshall Goldsmith, John Baldoni and Sarah McArthur
Packed with real-life examples, research-based assessments, and probing analyses, The AMA Handbook of Leadership's brisk, stimulating articles give you a broad perspective on new leadership challenges and strategies - including some refreshingly contrarian opinions and observations. Browse the book for a thorough overview or pick the best possible ideas for you and your organization. |
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Complicit: How Greed and Collusion Made the Credit Crisis Unstoppable
by Mark Gilbert
The credit crunch is affecting every investor and every consumer, every industry and every government program, yet few people truly understand how it happened. Subprime mortgages have been center stage, but behind the scenes a conspiracy of greed among bankers, investors, rating agencies and regulators has imperiled everyone’s financial future. We need to know what went wrong and how to change the practices that led to this calamity. Bloomberg columnist Mark Gilbert shows how Wall Street’s tolerance for extremes made the global credit crunch both foreseeable and inevitable. He offers a blow-by-blow account of what went wrong and what lessons need to be learned from the crisis. |
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Leadership Under Pressure: Tactics from the Frontline
by Bob Stewart
In Leadership under Pressure, Col. Bob Stewart draws on his experiences in the army and in business, using those experiences to illustrate the key attributes of a leader. In this timely and personal view of leadership, readers learn how to maintain morale in tough times, deal with a crisis, show courage to colleagues, and lead others by example. Having served in Northern Ireland and Bosnia, where he was British battalion commander, he has faced life and death situations and the toughest decisions any leader can make. Great stories and excellent insights. (ed.) |
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Y-Size Your Business: How Gen Y Employees Can Save You Money and Grow Your Business
by Jason Ryan Dorsey
Jason Ryan Dorsey, The Gen Y Guy®, presents a step-by-step methodology for best employing Gen Y without investing a lot of time or money. A member of Gen Y himself he delivers an insider's view of his generation as well as more than fifty cost-effective, ready-to-use strategies that deliver immediate measurable results. Dorsey collected these creative strategies from the frontlines of business during his work with executives, managers, and entrepreneurs in businesses large and small around the world. He shows you exactly how to attract the best Gen Y employees, quickly develop their workplace skills, and then unlock their performance, motivation, and loyalty. |
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Lead Your Boss: The Subtle Art of Managing Up
by John Baldoni
Brimming with examples and insights, Lead Your Boss guides you through the subtle yet highly effective leadership style of managing up. It's a powerful new approach that relies on initiative, resilience, empathy, courage, and other positive traits to bring people together-your boss, your peers, and your team-for the benefit of all.
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The Communication Problem Solver: Simple Tools and Techniques for Busy Managers
by Nannette Rundle Carroll
Managers need top-flight communication skills to keep their staffs productive and collaborative. But often, those who manage lack the ability to get things back on track once miscommunication occurs. This book helps readers analyze their communication skills and challenges and explains how they can use simple problem-solving techniques to resolve the people issues that derail productivity at work. This no-nonsense guide is packed with practical tools to help any manager be immediately effective, as well as a handy list of common communication problems and corresponding solutions. |
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The Integration Imperative
by Suzanne C. Lowe
When it comes to competing effectively, achieving financial success and delivering optimal client service, professional and B2B firms keep looking for the Holy Grail in all the wrong places. The real Holy Grail can be found by ensuring that marketing and business development are integrated into every function. The Integration Imperative summarizes three structural and cultural frameworks that professional- and B2B service firms can employ to achieve new effectiveness in marketing and business development, and ultimately, improve the firm's value to clients. |
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The Surprising Solution: Creating Possibility in a Swift and Severe World
by Bruce Piasecki
With their disproportionate power, big businesses now wield a tremendous ability to shape our social landscape, and the author impresses the importance of “Social Response Capitalism,” an approach that emphasizes a business's “social brand” as well as the price and quality of their product or service. The Surprising Solution describes the revolution in business in which the corporations that can best address environmental and social issues by creating superior products will thrive and profit in this new world. |
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Leadershift: Reinventing Leadership for the Age of Mass Collaboration
by Emmanuel Gobillot
Leadershift is about adapting and changing traditional models of leadership in response to the influence of mass collaboration, a form of collective action which occurs when large numbers of people work independently on a single project. Mass collaboration requires a form of leadership that is prepared to let go of the experience, expertise and control it holds precious. Emmanuel Gobillot describes how to adapt traditional leadership roles, and presents the tools necessary to succeed in this new age. |
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Girl on Top: Your Guide to Turning Dating Rules into Career Success
by Nicole Williams
Nicole Williams is the tell-it-like-it-is career expert who you wish could fight your work battles for you. But with her ingenious approach-taking the tactics used to land a man and applying them to your career-you'll be able to handle any work situation and come out on top. Here, Nicole introduces twenty tried-and-true dating rules such as "Don't Give Away the Milk for Free" and "Don't Waste the Pretty" and reveals how they can be applied just as effectively in the office. Nicole's keen insight and candid advice will teach you how to recognize the good guys from the bad, win the kudos of those who matter, and create the career of your dreams. |
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Who Turned Out the Lights?: Your Guided Tour to the Energy Crisis
by Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson
We don't know exactly what the price of gas will be by the time you have this book in your hands, but whether it's high, low, or somewhere in between, the fact of the matter is just the same: this country faces a huge, complicated, and scary energy problem.
Not only is it huge, complicated, and scary, it's daunting for most of us because it's nearly impossible to understand unless you're some kind of full-time energy wonk. We all recognize symptoms such as soaring gas prices and pricey home heating oil. But when it comes to the disease -- what's causing the country's energy problems and how to cure them -- that's another story entirely. Confused R Us is more like it. |
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The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs - How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience
by Carmine Gallo
Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s wildly popular presentations have set a new global
gold standard—and now this step-by-step guide shows you exactly how to use
his
crowd-pleasing techniques in your own presentations. Communications expert Carmine Gallo has studied and analyzed the very best
of Jobs’s performances, offering point-by-point examples, tried-and-true
techniques, and proven presentation secrets that work every time. With this
revolutionary approach, you’ll be surprised at how easy it is to sell your
ideas, share your enthusiasm, and wow your audience the Steve Jobs way. |
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Taming the Search-and-Switch Customer: Earning Customer Loyalty in a Compulsion-to-Compare World
by Jill Griffin
Customer loyalty strategies have turned a whole new page. Have you? Today's customers typically begin their selection process by using Internet search engines, which provide an endless array of choices, as well as the ability to compare everything—price, delivery, product specifications—at the click of a mouse. Businesses unprepared to address this new breed of buyer are losing market share by the minute. In Taming the Search-and-Switch Customer, customer loyalty expert Jill Griffin addresses this storm of change head-on. She examines the relentless, new selling landscape and offers practical advice for winning customer loyalty. |
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Upstarts! How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business and 8 Ways You Can Profit from Their Success
by Donna Fenn
Upstarts examines and analyzes this entrepreneurial revolution to reveal eight critical lessons every entrepreneur and marketer must learn. Fenn describes a generation of entrepreneurs that is highly collaborative and team-oriented. It’s quick and alert when it comes to new technologies. It’s hell-bent on changing the world. And it’s totally impatient with outmoded business models.
The sooner you adapt to the new way of business, the greater chance you have to grow and profit in the years ahead.
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International Communications Strategy : Developments in Cross-Cultural Communications, PR and Social Media
by Silvia Cambie and Yang-May Ooi
International Communications Strategy is about the cross-cultural challenges currently facing PR practitioners. Providing information on alternative communication approaches as well as cross-cultural case-studies and examples, International Communications Strategy will give readers points of reference and ideas to use every time they are asked to provide strategic communication guidance to senior management or clients. |
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MASTER LEADERS
by George Barna
In MASTER LEADERS, best-selling author and researcher George Barna gives you the opportunity of a lifetime to sit down with 30 of the world’s most respected leaders as they provide intriguing answers to some of the toughest questions and challenges facing leaders today.
Based on personal interviews and never before published conversations with “the greats” (including Seth Godin, Patrick Lencioni, Colleen Barrett, Ken Blanchard, Ben Carson, Tony Dungy, Newt Gingrich, and many others). MASTER LEADERS offers 16 essential leadership keys to help you honor God, strengthen and equip others, and manage a high-functioning team. The way you view leadership will never be the same. |
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Full of Bull: Unscramble Wall Street Doubletalk to Protect and Build Your Portfolio
by Stephen T. McClellan
In Full of Bull, you’ll learn how to look for analysts’ favoritism and blind spots; how to react appropriately to upgrades, downgrades, and price targets; and to recognize what company announcements really mean. Drawing on his immense body of experience analyzing top companies, McClellan shows you how to systematically evaluate a company’s prospects yourself and choose investments based on principles that work. This is exactly the kind of objective, focused guidance you won’t be getting from your broker! |
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The World According to Twitter
by David Pogue
New York Times technology columnist David Pogue has tapped into the brilliance of his half-million followers on Twitter by posting a different, thought-provoking question every night. Out of 25,000 tweets, Pogue has gathered the very best 2,524 into this irresistible, clever, laugh-out-loud funny book. It's a very interesting social networking experiment.
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Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone
by Mark Goulston
Over his career as an organizational consultant, relationship counselor, and hostage-negotiation trainer, Dr. Goulston has found what works, consistently, to reach all kinds of people in any type of situation. He discovered that the counter-intuitive step of listening is the real key to getting through and influencing others. In this very engaging work, he demonstrates through a wide range of workplace and relationship-related scenarios, how mirroring what others are feeling naturally works to break down barriers and open the way to winning their attention, trust and cooperation. It's an excellent read! |
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Maestro: A Surprising Story About Leading by Listening
by Roger Nierenberg
The author, a veteran conductor, is the creator of The Music Paradigm, a unique program that invites people to sit inside a professional symphony orchestra to think about leadership and communication in an entirely new way.
The book is a parable of how a rising executive facing tough challenges befriends an orchestra conductor and experiences a most profound transformation. There are many very powerful insights here that the best leaders can apply to take their teams to a new level of harmony and excellence. Highly recommended and one of the best of the year! |
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The Other Kind of Smart: Simple Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence for Greater Personal Effectiveness and Success
by Harvey Deutschendorf
The author is an Emotional Intelligence (EI) coach, and in this book uses the the techniques of storytelling, quotes and exercises to show readers how to apply the principles of EI at work and in life. It's an excellent read and a very useful guide to develop stress tolerance, cultivate empathy, increase flexibility, boost assertiveness, resolve problems successfully, and overcome self-limiting barriers to achieve one's true potential. Congratulations Harvey, great work! |
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I Love You More Than My Dog: Five Decisions That Drive Extreme Customer Loyalty in Good Times and Bad
by Jeanne Bliss
In her first book Chief Customer Officer Jeanne Bliss established herself as a foremost authority and advocate of customer experience, focus and profitability. She challenged the C-Suite to go beyond "lip service to passionate action", and provided the road map to make it so. In I Love You More Than My Dog she explores how only an elite number of businesses have achieved a level of customer devotion she's called "beloved" - with passionate, loyal and vocal customers and advocates that sustain their business even in tough times. It's an exciting, edgy and captivating read driven by Jeanne's passion and 'soul', and filled with examples that will thrill you with what's possible! It's guaranteed to "twist your head" and have you take a very good look in the mirror to consider your values, choose your "story," and understand the five key decisions that lead to a "beloved" level of customer devotion. It's brilliant, and one of the very best of the year! (ed.) |
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No: The Only Negotiating System You Need for Work and Home
by Jim Camp
In his previous business best-seller, Start with No, Camp challenged the prevailing win-win school of negotiation made famous by “getting to yes” and its imitators. His big idea, then and now, is that negotiating based on feel-good emotions, assumptions, and compromises will get you demolished at the negotiation table. Camp’s “No” method takes an ethical, unemotional, highly structured, and disciplined approach to any type of negotiation, and provides a step-by-step way to achieve the best possible outcome for your side every time. |
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The Hamster Revolution for Meetings: How to Meet Less and Get More Done
by Mike Song, Vicki Halsey and Tim Burress
The best-selling authors of The Hamster Revolution are at it again, this time with a book that tackles the most wearisome and wasteful practice in business: meetings. Through engaging, lively, and witty dialogue featuring the harried “businesshamster” Iris and a productivity coach she meets on a delayed flight, this fast-paced book packs tips, tools, and tricks into a 90-minute read that’s guaranteed to give readers a new outlook on time—and help them stop spinning their wheels in meetings. |
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Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
The U.S. economy is in shambles. Government intervention into the economy is increasing by the day. Americans are alarmed and desperate for answers: What caused the crisis? What is the solution? That might sound like a description of today's world, but in fact it's sketch of the world of Ayn Rand's 1957 classic novel Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand died more than a quarter of a century ago, yet her name appears regularly in discussions of our current economic turmoil. Pundits including Rush Limbaugh and Rick Santelli urge listeners to read her books, and her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged, is selling at a faster rate today than at any time during its 51-year history. |
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Now What?: 90 Days to a New Life Direction
by Laura Berman Fortgang
In Now What? pioneering life coach Laura Berman Fortgang shares the process that she has used so successfully to help hundreds of clients make major changes in their lives. Whether it's moving on from a dead end job, discovering an entirely new creative outlet, or answering the age old question "What am I meant to do with my life?" this book provides a clear and infinitely practical 90-day program that can help you make major changes in your life. Full of inspiring and empowering exercises and tools, this book guides readers-day by day and step by step-through a 90-day process that will lead to true life satisfaction and fulfillment. |
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The Power of Strategic Commitment: Achieving Extraordinary Results Through Total Alignment and Engagement
by Josh Leibner, Gershon Mader and Alan Weiss
This outstanding book shows readers how to improve strategic processes and execution by engaging the support of managers, employees, boards, suppliers, investors and all stakeholders, outlining the key factors that determine commitment, and powerful ways to build buy-in and alignment. The authors offer a blueprint for moving beyond compliance towards that magical point where every initiative is embraced by every employee at all levels. This is indeed one of the very best of the year!
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STOP Organizationitis
by Don Burnstine
Through a series of working sessions Burnstine outlines his "Expectation Agreement" approach to resolving conflict and contention within organizations. Following the procedure outlined in the book a simple half-hour of honest discussion and respectful behaviour can resolve days, weeks, months, or even years of unproductive and unresponsive behaviour. This is a quick and easy read that will give you new tools to improve workplace relationships and productivity. Great work Don! |
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Young Guns: The Fearless Entrepreneur's Guide to Chasing Your Dreams and Breaking Out on Your Own
by Robert Tuchman
In Young Guns", Tuchman shows readers how to start out on a business venture, how to gain a client base, how to keep those clients, and what they need to sacrifice along the way in order to succeed. He reveals the myths and realities about starting a business when you're young. Filled with real-life examples of entrepreneurs under 35 who have made it to the top, this is the book that will show readers how to go for the gold and lead a passionate, daring and successful life. |
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On The Firm
by Philip Bryer
Philip Bryer’s first novel, None Of Your Business, introduced Johnson and detailed his growing frustration at the antics of teambuilding geeks, clipboard-toting buffoons, and micro-managing corporate bullshitters. Seeking revenge, Johnson aimed high and resorted to comic sabotage. In the sequel, On The Firm, Johnson finds himself occupying a semi-official role for Her Majesty’s Government with a brief to develop his talents and carry out a campaign of subversion against Britain’s competitors in the international marketplace. Excellent work Philip! It's provocative, a little outrageous and highly entertaining! (ed.) |
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Why Loyalty Matters: The Groundbreaking Approach to Rediscovering Happiness, Meaning and Lasting Fulfillment in Your Life and Work
by Timothy Keiningham and Lerzan Aksoy with Luke Williams
In Why Loyalty Matters, renowned loyalty experts Timothy Keiningham and Lerzan Aksoy draw from the most comprehensive study of loyalty ever conducted, the landmark Ipsos Loyalty Study, to show why loyalty is critical to our happiness as individuals and our success as a society. |
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I Hate People!: Kick Loose from the Overbearing and Underhanded Jerks at Work and Get What You Want Out of Your Job
by Jonathan Littman and Marc Hershon
I Hate People! is a witty, counter-intuitive, and irreverent turn on the classic workplace self-help book that will show you how to identify the Ten Least Wanted--the people you hate--while revealing the strategies to neutralize them. The authors also will teach you how to carve out more time for yourself by becoming a "Soloist"-- one of those bold individuals daring to work alone or collaborate with a handful of other talented people ... while artfully deflecting the rest. |
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Counter Clockwise
by Ellen Langer
If we could turn back the clock psychologically, could we also turn it back physically? For more than thirty years, award-winning social psychologist Ellen Langer has studied this provocative question, and now has a conclusive answer: opening our minds to what’s possible, instead of clinging to accepted notions about what’s not, can lead to better health at any age.
Scientifically riveting and practically empowering, Counterclockwise holds enormously exciting implications for our general health—including vision, old age, cancer, weight, and heart health—as well as for our fundamental happiness. |
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Rebuilding Your Life After Redundancy - The New Life Network Handbook
by Janet Davies
Rebuilding your life after redundancy - the trauma of redundancy currently haunts thousands of people every working day and the media is full of reports about people who are worried about their job security and how to re-invent their careers in today's uncertain and demanding times. Would you know how to rebuild your life if your old career disappeared? If you need a book that will put redundancy into perspective, give some sensible advice and guidance, provide follow-up resources and contacts and do all this without being patronising - this is it. It's also useful if you want to change career or jump out of your box".
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Womenomics: Write Your Own Rules for Success
by Claire Shipman and Katty Kay
Veteran journalists Claire Shipman and Katty Kay marshal the evidence to show how women's management style is ideally suited to the new business world, resulting in more profitable companies with happier employees. They also show how women can use this power to get what they really want -more time and freedom in their jobs without falling off the professional ladder. Most women will happily trade some responsibility and some cash for more time-that's the new currency. Shipman and Kay give personal accounts from their own lives-the mistakes as well as the triumphs-and they share the stories of women around the country who have carved out great work-life scenarios. Above all they stay positive, encouraging, and humorous.
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Luck by Design: Certain Success in an Uncertain World
by Richard E Goldman
In 1975 Richard Goldman invested $3,000 into the stock of a three-store retail company - Men's Wearhouse - and helped build it into one of the most successful retailing enterprises in North America. Part memoir and part handbook on leadership, In Luck by Design Goldman offers his wisdom and experiences in trusting your intuition, living with integrity and creating the life you were meant to live. It is a very 'refreshing' read - it's personal, filled with poignant stories and engaging in the values and principles he presents. As I was reading the book, the thought - "a life well lived" - came to mind often. It's a very positive legacy. Thank you Richie for a excellent book!
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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan
Learn how to keep your cool and get what you want when emotions flare. When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, you have three choices: Avoid a crucial conversation and suffer the consequences; handle the conversation badly and suffer the consequences; or read Crucial Conversations and discover how to communicate best when it matters most. This wise and witty guide gives you the tools you need to step up to life's most difficult and important conversations, say what's on your mind, and achieve positive outcomes. |
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Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
by Brian Tracy
It's not until you deal with the dissatisfactions of the present that you can move onward and upward to create the wonderful future that is possible for you.
In Reinvention, Brian Tracy reveals how every one of us is engineered for success, and with the right focus, can re-make ourselves and put an end to the chronic stress, unhappiness, and dissatisfaction we might feel in our careers and lives. This unique, life-altering book gives readers an interactive series of exercises they can use to focus on what they really want for themselves. |
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Luxury Strategy: Break the Rules of Marketing to Build Luxury Brands
by Jean-Noel Kapferer and Vincent Bastien
The Luxury Strategy analyses in depth the essence of luxury, highlights its managerial implications and rationalizes the highly original methods - often very far from the usual marketing strategies - used to transform small family businesses such as Ferrari, BMW, Louis Vuitton, Cartier, Chanel, Armani or Ralph Lauren into worldwide successes.
Luxury experts Jean-Noel Kapferer and Vincent Bastien unveil how in any market, including B to B, a company can learn from luxury strategies to differentiate itself profitably. |
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Strategic Customer Service
by John A. Goodman
Companies that strategically align customer service with their overall corporate strategy can transcend typical good business to become a profitable word-of-mouth machine that will transform the bottom line. The author draws on over thirty years of research for companies such as 3M, American Express, Chik-Fil-A, USAA, Coca-Cola, FedEx, GE, Cisco Systems, Neiman Marcus, and Toyota. Filled with proven strategies and eye-opening case studies, this book challenges many aspects of conventional wisdom using hard data and reveals how any organization can earn more loyalty, win more customers...and improve their financial bottom line.
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Brand Immortality: How Brands Can Live Long and Prosper
by Hamish Pringle and Peter Field
Brand Immortality is a health manual for brands that seek immortality. Full of examples drawn from household brands, it examines how the nature of brands has changed over time and continues to evolve, and the implications this has for marketing. It identifies the factors that are essential to a brand's long term survival -- especially those which defend and strengthen a brand's place in the hearts and minds of consumers. |
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Chaotics: The Business of Managing and Marketing in the Age of Turbulence
by Philip Kotler and John A. Caslione
We have entered into an entirely new era, an age of increasingly frequent and intense periods of turbulence in the global economy. Unlike past recessions, today’s crises have precipitated a need for businesses to develop a new mindset, one that takes into account intermittent periods of disturbance, allowing them to thrive while under the constant threat of chaos. Complete with metrics and measurements, Chaotics outlines a powerful new system for managing waves of uncertainty affecting customers, employees, and other stakeholders. (The best of the year so far! ed.) |
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Five Deadly Sins CEO Make in Sales
by Jim Lewis
Whether you are the CEO of a small company with only one salesperson or you manage thousands, it's very likely that you have committed at least one of the sins described in this book. Don't worry; you are not alone. The logic that leads senior executives to commit these sins over and over makes sense and is pervasive. This book is based on the work and experience of the author, who admits to having committed all five sins. Fortunately, he found out soon enough to be able to help others avoid the same fate. The story is short, enlightening, and provocative. |
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Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time
by Joel Comm with, Ken Burge
In Twitter Power, Internet marketing and Web innovation expert Joel Comm shows businesses and marketers how to integrate Twitter into their existing marketing strategies to build a loyal following among Twitter members, expand awareness for their product or service, and even handle negative publicity due to angry or disappointed consumers. The book also presents case studies of companies on the forefront of the Twitter movement, to help reader's develop their own social networking strategies. (Hey, after reading this I signed up and am following Joe on Twitter! Great work!) |
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The Sticking Point Solution: 9 Ways to Move Your Business from Stagnation to Stunning Growth InTough Economic Times
by Jay Abraham
Businesses can plateau, stall, or stagnate...without the owners or key executives even realizing it. The purpose of The Sticking Point Solution is to help entrepreneurs and executives recognize the ways in which their businesses may be stuck, and to then give them tools for getting unstuck and enjoying exponential growth. The results: freedom from stagnation and stalling; new levels of profitability and success; and a much greater sense of control and pleasure from running the enterprise.
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Experiential Marketing: A Practical Guide to Interactive Brand Experiences
by Shaz Smilansky
Author Shaz Smilansky offers practical advice and guidance to help you every step of the way with your experiential marketing campaigns. She shows how to set objectives, target markets, bring your message to life, and measure the results. She reveals how to maximise brand experience by careful selection of venue and activity, and how to evaluate and gauge the effectiveness of the whole experiential marketing process. Combining practical insight and experience with practitioner interviews and international case studies, Experiential Marketing will provide a robust platform for you to develop and measure your own brand experience plans. |
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A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World's Greatest Management Teacher
by William A. Cohen
In A Class with Drucker, Cohen shares many of Drucker’s teachings that never made it into his countless books and articles, ideas that were offered to his students in classroom or informal settings. Cohen expands on Drucker’s lessons with personal anecdotes about his teacher’s personality, lack of pretension, and interactions with students and others. He also shows how Drucker’s ideas can be applied to the real-world challenges managers face today. Enlightening and intriguing, this book will enable anyone to gain from the timeless wisdom of the inspiring man himself. |
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Take Their Breath Away: How Imaginative Service Creates Devoted Customers
by Chip R. Bell and John R. Patterson
This ingenious, real-world guide explores a variety of exciting, creative customer experience ideas using examples from remarkable customer-centric organizations. The key to a successful enterprise is value-added service, but the secret to great customer service is surprising customers with a value-unique experience. Take Their Breath Away™ provides ideas and insights for all who want to create a stunning, mind-blowing customer experience. |
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Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken: Transform Your Life with the Power of Authenticity
by Mike Robbins
“Authenticity is enjoying a new sense of freedom to be who you really are - yourself, natural and without a mask.” In Be Yourself, Everyone Else Is Already Taken, Robbins offers five powerful principles of authenticity and then provides action plans, exercises, resources, and anecdotes that demonstrate how to apply these principles on a daily basis in your life. Written for people who want to enhance, expand, and deepen, their lives, their work, and their relationships, this book is brimming with inspiration and practical help. |
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Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education in Business and Life
by Donald J. Trump, with Meredith McIver
Donald J. Trump is the very definition of the American success story, continually
setting standards of excellence while expanding his passionate interests in
real estate, gaming, sports, and entertainment, which include runaway hits
The Apprentice and The Celebrity Apprentice. He is one of the most recognizable
and credible “brands” in the world. His newest book is a personally selected
collection of never-before-published engaging pieces that reflect his philosophy of
how to achieve lasting personal and business success. |
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? In this indispensable guide, we discover that sticky messages of all kinds – from the infamous “kidney theft ring” hoax to a coach’s lessons on sportsmanship to a vision for a new product at Sony – draw their power from the same six traits. Provocative, eye-opening, and often surprisingly funny, Made to Stick shows us the vital principles of winningideas – and tells us how we can apply these rules to making our own messages stick. |
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Greater Than Yourself: The Ultimate Lesson of True Leadership
by Steve Farber
Steve Farber is a masterful and engaging story teller, and if you appreciate a little mystery, guitar playing and jamming with your leadership principles you will certainly enjoy this quick read. Farber shows that the goal of a genuine leader is to help others — teammates, employees, and colleagues — become more capable, confident, and accomplished than they are themselves. Through the actions of a forward-thinking and extraordinarily successful CEO, Farber reveals the three keys to achieving this: Expand Yourself, Give Yourself, and Replicate Yourself. Great work Steve, and an excellent follow-up to The Radical Leap. (ed.)
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Marketing
Metrics in Action: Creating a Performance-Driven Marketing Organization
by Laura Patterson
Talk about marketing accountability has become almost commonplace. And most
marketing executives get it. They understand the need to know the numbers.
The real question is, Which numbers? Marketing Metrics in Action answers
those questions and addresses those problems with a balance of sound theory
and technique and practical application. The author, a veteran of marketing
on both sides, the client side and the consultant side, explains how you need
to make marketing metrics work for you. It provides wise counsel for identifying
which metrics matter most to your organization and practical guidance for
putting all the sophisticated marketing tools to profitable use in your company. |
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Strategic Acceleration: Succeed at the Speed of Life
by Tony Jeary
Tony’s latest book details a methodology that will help you get clear, stay
focused, and efficiently execute relevant, high-value activities... thereby
getting you the results, and success, you really want.... faster! It's about
developing a clear vision, outlining priorities and objectives, and tackling
goals with a real sense of urgency and focus. Once understood and deployed,
Strategic Acceleration will have a powerful, long-term positive influence
on the results and success that so many people want. This is on of the best of the year! (ed.) |
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The
Moneymakers: How Extraordinary Managers Win in a World Turned Upside Down
by Anne-Marie Fink
When real money is at stake, it tends to clarify the mind, and for over
a decade, Anne-Marie Fink has had literally billions of dollars resting on
her assessments of companies. As an equity analyst and professional investor,
she has been charged with understanding whether businesses are solid, long-term
moneymakers–or rotten tomatoes–before investing with them. This is an excellent read for all CEOs and business owners who want to 'get it right!' It's one of the best of the year! |
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Leadership RE: Vision
by Jim Seybert
A go-to book for any leader, whether in the church or business world, Leadership RE:Vision provides daily meditations written to help leaders think through their problems and challenges from a fresh perspective. It’s about
looking at your leadership habits from a new
perspective and using a different set of standards
to measure the success of your efforts. In Leadership RE:Vision, Jim Seybert challenges conventional
leadership thinking, sets a fresh context for leaders’ actions,
and calls for a new direction of principled leadership! |
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Investing
in a Sustainable World: Why Green Is the New Color of Money on Wall Street
by Matthew J. Kiernan
Investing in a Sustainable
World offers clear proof, through facts, figures, and hard documentation,
that “going green” leads directly to better stock market performance...and
that investors and companies who ignore it will, in fact, lose money. The
book reveals the most powerful global megatrends—from the ongoing focus on
emerging markets to natural resource depletion—which are transforming the
very basis on which companies will compete, and offers an approach to sustainability-enhanced
investing beneficial to both investors and companies. |
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Big Vision, Small Business
from Jamie S. Walters and Ivy Sea
In these tumultuous and challenging times many formerly employed individuals will need to chart a new course as entrpreneurs - self-employed or creating small businesses. Jamie Walters is a visionary and your wise counsel and we have her book listed as one of the very best of all time! Big Vision, Small Business resonates today more than ever, and it will help you face your issues with greater clarity and positive momentum. Please allow yourself to be inspired and create your future with confidence and on purpose. |
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Sales 2.0: Improve Business Results Using Innovative Sales Practices and
Technology
by Anneke Seley and Brent Holloway
Driven by an explosion of online products and changing customer buying preferences,
Sales 2.0 is the marriage of Web 2.0 technologies with innovative sales processes.
The book shows readers how to redeploy their sales teams for greater bottom-line
results and reveals all the differences between Sales 2.0 and traditional
selling. Through real world case studies, readers will learn how industry
leaders achieved phenomenal results and a competitive advantage. Applicable
to sales teams in any industry, Sales 2.0 presents the future of sales today. |
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SKIRTS in the Boardroom: A Woman's Survival Guide to Success in Business
& Life
by Marshawn Evans
SKIRTS in the Boardroom is designed to equip women with the strategies necessary
to combine confidence and compassion, style and substance, and, of course,
beauty and brains. A must-have for all women looking to maximize their professional
potential, SKIRTS in the Boardroom offers refreshing and inspiring business
advice that is savvy, sensible, straightforward – and long overdue! |
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The Cult of the
Customer:
Create an Amazing Customer Experience That Turns Satisfied Customers
Into Customer Evangelists
by Shep Hyken
Shep Hyken shows how to design a strategy that
leads both customers and employees through five distinct cultural phases –
from "uncertainty" to "amazement." By presenting dozens of case studies that
show how great companies made this journey, Hyken identifies the critical
internal and external changes that allowed them to build a Cult of the Customer
– and shows how you can do it too. Hyken’s message is both powerful and timely:
the happier your customers and employees are, the more successful your company
will be. The Cult of the Customer is your guide to creating a customer-focused
culture that turns satisfied customers into customer evangelists. |
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Running with the Rhinos
by Christian D. Warren
Through the metaphor of the magnificent rhino, Warren invites leaders to live a bold and courageous life and create a future without sacrificing their integrity, ideals, or humanity. Based on the premise that there is a leader in everyone, Warren uses the strong and fiercely independent rhino as an unlikely guide to leadership principles that include vision, understanding, inspiration, power, endurance, conviction, support and heart. Running with the Rhinos is an outstanding resource of leadership and one of the very best books of the year! |
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101
Boardroom Problems and How to Solve Them
by Eli Mina
Eli Mina has firsthand experience in dealing with the myriad of problems
that boards face. Here he shows readers how to identify board dysfunctions
and the damage they inflict, deal with boardroom problems with confidence,
increase the likelihood of their board achieving the right decisions, minimize
or eliminate flawed decisions, and make a board more credible and trustworthy
with its community and stakeholders. This is an easy-to-use guide to help you bring order and sense to any boardroom and enable the best possible decision-making. |
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The
Global Achievement Gap
by Tony Wagner
Despite the best efforts of educators, our nation's schools are dangerously
obsolete. Instead of teaching students to be critical thinkers and problem-solvers,
we are asking them to memorize facts for multiple choice tests. An education
manifesto for the twenty-first century, The Global Achievement Gap is provocative
and inspiring. It is essential reading for parents, educators, policymakers,
business leaders, and anyone interested in seeing our young people succeed
as employees and citizens. |
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The Amaryllis Way
by Derrick Mueller
Leadership books come in all forms today, but some of the best are stories that convey important truths. Derrick Mueller combines his loves for gardening and leadership development in a compelling story about how leaders train other leaders. His eight-step methodology provides a beautiful picture of the heart of leadership. ( Marvin Brubacher). The Amaryllis Way is a most mindful and engaging story of nurturing and caring leadership, and growing leaders of leaders. It's an essential read today! (ed.) |
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The Age of Speed: A Strategy for Thriving in a More-Faster-Now World
by Vince Poscente
Is our 24/7, CrackBerry, more-faster-now culture eating us alive or setting
us free? For everyone feeling trampled by the speed of life and business,
author Vince Poscente reveals why harnessing the power of speed is the ultimate
solution for our time-starved era. The Age of Speed shows this and other groundbreaking
revelations at work with case studies drawn from renegade companies such as
Netflix, Geico, and Nintendo. With smart personal revelations, addictively
clever pop science, practical case studies, and a fresh voice, The Age of
Speed is a fast, fun read. |
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Leading
with Kindness: How Good People Consistently Get Superior Results
by William F. Baker and Michael O'Malley
Being kind is a crucial attribute of some of the world's most successful business
leaders - whose success is anchored in their integrity, credibility, vision,
insight, inclusion, and fairness. And kindness is not some intangible quality
that one either "has" or doesn't, it is a combination of quantifiable, learnable,
and refinable traits and skills. Leading with Kindness identifies six
ingredients of kindness - compassion, integrity, gratitude, authenticity,
humility, and humor that are absolutely essential to powerful leadership. |
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The Heart of Humor
by Raju Mandhyan
Raju Mandhyan, author of The Heart of Public Speaking is your guide on an adventure to experience "practical tools and suggestions to dispense humor on demand." More praise:
"Clear, sensitive and a delight! Through vivid stories and accessible strategies,
Mandhyan wittily persuades how anyone can and should churn out humor for a more vibrant existence." “Full of fun and foibles that make you ponder, explore and grow!” Thanks Raju (ed.) |
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THE INTEGRITY DIVIDEND:
Leading By The Power Of Your Word
by Tony Simons
Simons has found that employees who believe that their managers can be counted on to keep their word, show deeper commitment to the business, leading to lower employee turnover and superior customer service - which in turn results in higher profitability. Behavioral integrity also increases the strength and efficiency of relationships with customers, suppliers, and unions. All of these improvements can be expected to show up on the bottom line as “the integrity dividend. |
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Becoming
an Extraordinary Manager: The 5 Essentials for Success
by Len Sandler
Nearly all managers dream of being inspiring leaders who elicit the most from
their people. But while they may understand the skills needed to manage their
teams, very few know how to put their knowledge into practice. Now, any manager
can get exceptional results and make an important contribution to the organization. Becoming an Extraordinary Manager focuses not just on "understanding"
principles of good management, but on taking action. Lively in style and thorough
in content, this is the book that gives every manager a complete guide to
avoiding the ordinary and becoming the best. |
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Managing
Thought: How Do Your Thoughts Rule Your World?
by Mary J. Lore
Managing Thought serves as an indispensable guide to those who want to change
the way they think and improve their lives. The book takes the power of positive
thinking to a new level and provides a step-by-step guide to managing our
thoughts to become more creative, inspired, balanced and "on purpose."
It's an illuminating and yet very actionable work and one of the best of
the year! |
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100%
Leadership: Guidelines for Successful Leaders
by Gabriel Hevesi
There is no recipe for success. If there were, we would all use it and it
would cease to be effective. Yet, there are many roads that can lead to success.
The secret is to choose the right road for your organization among all options.
It takes skilled judgment to apply the right method at the right time, under
the right circumstances. Using sound judgment, we know when to act, when to
coach, and when to delegate. 100% Leadership provides checkpoints for day-to-day
decisions and actions. It is a very comprehensive and very readable leadership
handbook. |
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Toy
Box Leadership: Leadership Lessons from the Toys You Loved as a Child
by Ron Hunter and Michael E. Waddell
What can LEGOS teach you about building your business through connection?
How can Slinky Dog demonstrate the value of patience when you're growing your
organization? What has every little boy learned from his Little Green Army
Men that he can use in business strategy? Whether you are an executive, a
manager, or a parent, in Toy Box Leadership you'll you will find the toy box
a great place for lessons to successfully influence and lead others. Very
enjoyable read! ed. |
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Relevance: Making Stuff That Matters
by Tim Manners
After years studying remarkable companies and speaking to some of the most
influential leaders, Tim Manners has proposed a solution to the marketing
woes of many brands. Stop worrying about demographics, fads, and cutting-edge
advertising. Instead, focus on relevance. Manners shares how the best of the
best create solutions to their customers' problems and help them live happier
lives. The principles? Insight, Innovation, Investment, Design, Experience
and Value -all accountable to the happiness of people who would buy your
brands. |
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The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook: When It All Comes Together
by Jeana Wirtenberg, David Lipsky, and Bill Russell
Building an organization’s commitment to sustainability is not just a means
to enhancing the health, diversity, and strength of the world’s ecosystems
but a financially and socially sound best practice as well. Collecting the
wisdom of an outstanding network of experts, the editors help readers understand
what sustainability means and how they can implement it in their organizations.
The book includes metrics to measure efforts in promoting an environmentally
responsible organization, and presents models, tools, case studies and examples
from a wide range of companies to bring the concept to life. A very timely
resource indeed! |
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Let's
Get Real or Let's Not Play: Transforming the Buyer/Seller Relationship
by Mahan Khalsa and Randy Illig
This book shares the unique FranklinCovey Sales Performance Group methodology
to transform a sales culture with clarity, authenticity, and emotional intelligence. Mahan Khalsa and Randy Illig
argue that salespeople do best when they focus 100 percent
on helping clients succeed. When customers are successful, both buyer and
seller win. When they aren't, both lose. It's no longer sufficient to get
clients to buy—a salesperson must also help the client reduce costs, increase
revenues, and improve productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction. |
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Unleashing
the Power of Rubber Bands
by Nancy Ortberg
Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands is an engaging and insightful look into
the qualities, attributes, and practices that turn ordinary leaders into extraordinary
ones. Nancy Ortberg's unique twist on vision casting; managing tensions; nurturing
healthy conflict; motivating those around you; fostering creativity, passion,
and trust is unlike anything you've ever read before! At times challenging,
at times candid, but always inspiring, Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands will bring out the best in even the most seasoned leaders. (Nancy's stories and faith will engage and inspire, and this is one of the best of the year! ed.) |
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Influence: Science and Practice
by Robert B. Cialdini
Robert B. Cialdini concisely explores six strategies that persons with good
and/or bad intentions can use in influencing others to do something or not
to do it. These strategies are authority, commitment and consistency, liking,
reciprocation, scarcity, and social proof. Whether you wish to understand
what shapes you own personal decisions or need to persuade in a job or business,
this very interesting book is indispensable. |
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Five Hidden Mistakes CEOs Make; How to Unlock the Secrets that Drive Growth
and Profitability
by Tom Northup
Five Hidden Mistakes CEOs Make is essential reading for business owners,
senior executives, and entrepreneurs seeking to rise above the status quo.
As the former CEO of three successful businesses, author Tom Northup is a
results-oriented executive who understands how to build successful organizations.
In this book, he reveals expert insight and proven methods readers can use
to improve competitive advantage, innovate in their marketplace, and build
sustainable growth and profitability year after year. |
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The
Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm
by Kenneth W. Gronbach
This groundbreaking book lets you in on the best ways to position your business
to roll with changing populations of consumers - including how to succeed
despite the looming challenges posed by the relatively small Generation X,
and leverage the explosive opportunities afforded by massive young Generation
Y. With its simple yet profound insights (along with eye-opening examples
of companies who succeeded or failed spectacularly in leveraging or weathering
the demographic storm), The Age Curve will forever change the way you look
at your business, and how you perceive the generational impact on the entire
commercial (and political!) landscape. |
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Left
on Red: How to Ignite, Leverage and Build Visionary Organizations
by Bill Glynn
Left on Red reveals how visionary thinkers and risk-takers build great companies.
Bill Glynn provides an insider's view into some of the world's coolest deals
in a refreshingly politically incorrect, intelligent manner. Google, Apple,
and YouTube are the products of leaders who break the old rules of business
to bring their radical ideas to life. Armed with a wealth of examples and
innovative insights, Glynn shows entrepreneurs and executives how to navigate
a business landscape often littered with great ideas and innovators who are
unprepared to lead. |
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Gurus: Lessons from the Best Management Books of All Time
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for business book readers. These summaries distill thousands of pages about
leadership, strategy, crisis management, organizational behavior, and more—perfect
for busy executives and students. An excellent read! |
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The
Granularity of Growth: How to Identify the Sources of Growth and Drive Enduring
Company Performance
by PatrickViguerie, Sven Smit and Mehrdad Baghai
While growth is a top priority for companies of all sizes, it can be extremely
difficult to create and maintain—especially in today's competitive business
environment. In order to achieve this goal, you need to think through the
growth challenges your organization faces and follow a detailed approach that
will allow you to uncover, understand, and capture potential growth opportunities. |
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Outsmart!:
How to Do What Your Competitors Can't
by Jim Champy
This concise, fast-paced book shows how you can achieve breakthrough growth
by consistently outsmarting your competition. Champy reveals the surprising,
counterintuitive lessons learned by companies that have achieved super-high
growth for at least three straight years. Drawing on the strategies of some
of today’s best “high velocity” companies, he identifies eight powerful ways
to compete in even the roughest marketplace. Excellent book and one of the best of the year! |
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Becoming
a Resonant Leader: Develop Your Emotional Intelligence, Renew Your Relationships,
Sustain Your Effectiveness
by Annie McKee, Richard E. Boyatzis and Frances Johnston
What distinguishes great leaders? Exceptional leaders capture passion. They
lead for real: from the heart, smart and focused on the future, and with a
commitment to being their very best. The authors
share vivid, real-life stories illuminating how people can develop emotional
intelligence, build resonance, and renew themselves. Reflecting twenty years
of longitudinal research and practical wisdom with executives and leaders
around the world, this new book is organized around a core of experience-tested
exercises. These tools help you articulate your strengths and values, craft
a plan for intentional change, and create resonance with others. |
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The
Accidental Entrepreneur: The 50 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Starting
a Business
by Susan Urquhart-Brown
Like many business owners, Susan-Urquhart Brown never expected to end up as
an entrepreneur. Launching her own business spoke to her passions, but she
soon realized there was much more to being a successful owner than she ever
expected. In The Accidental Entrepreneur, she takes all the mystery out of
going solo. For those who are just beginning to consider starting a venture
as well as those who want to take their organization to the next level, she
offers advice on what works and what doesn’t. It's an excellent read! |
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The
AMA Guide to Management Development
by Daniel R. Tobin, Margaret Pettingell
Management development is a crucial task for every enterprise. This book gives
readers the guidance they need to make sure that both current and future managers
have the abilities their organizations need to prosper. Based on the set of
managerial competencies specially developed by the American Management Association
for a new core management curriculum, The AMA Guide to Management Development provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of how to continually
develop managers throughout their entire organization. |
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The
Offsite: A Leadership Challenge Fable
by Robert H. Thompson
Drawing on the leadership theories in the management classic The Leadership
Challenge, Robert Thompson effortlessly incorporates these ideas into a fable
of leadership and growth. Based on a company's three-day offsite meeting,
we follow this tale of transition through the eyes of two former rival pharmaceutical
companies creating a joint sales strategy. The characters ultimately learn
how to adopt the five practises that form The Leadership Challenge. This is a very enjoyable and entertaining read that will also inspire! |
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Measure
What Matters
Reconnecting Marketing To Business Goals
by Laura
Patterson
Laura Patterson, co-founder of VisionEdge Marketing presents a comprehensive
metrics framework that marketing professionals and company executives can
use to ensure marketing is tightly connected to business goals, and provides
an approach marketers can employ to demonstrate marketing’s contribution. |
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Hit
the Ground Leading!
by Angela
Mondou
This is an action-packed, head-twisting, edgy and powerful handbook that
will show you how to lead your own adventure and turn your plans into reality.
This is one of the best leadership guides of all time and a must read for
all of your leaders of the future! (ed.) |
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