| 1. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't | |
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by: Jim Collins List Price: $27.50 Amazon.com's Price: $19.25 You Save: $8.25 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Possibly the best business book I've ever read, or at least the best that wasn't a journalistic narrative or a history. Most business "advice" books really just amount to hero worship (how to be like Jack Welch, or whoever), and Good to Great is a strong antidote to all that rot. While we gravitate toward big personalities and dramatic stories, the real roots of greatness like elsewhere -- the CEO names in Good to Great won't be familiar to most readers, but their successes are real, and Collins ... Read More  Read Reviews and Description
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| 2. Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life | |
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by: Spencer Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard List Price: $19.95 Amazon.com's Price: $13.96 You Save: $5.99 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description True this is written so a child could read it. True the examples are rather simplistic. It's a parable folks. And while there is nothing hugely revolutionary about the book, what it does provide are reminders on how to embrace change and follow the cheese (change), or become immobilized by fear and, thus, stagnant. The two main characters, Hem and Haw, really drive the point home of how we should all try to be. We all know we are supposed to be more like Haw, but isn't funny how easy it is ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 3. Now, Discover Your Strengths | |
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by: Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton List Price: $28.00 Amazon.com's Price: $19.04 You Save: $8.96 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description On its own, "Now, Discover Your Strengths" is a very interesting read for anyone in a leadership position, but paired with its prequel, "First, Break All the Rules," one can be armed with a self-awareness and understanding of others to create paradigm shifts in nearly any organization. As an educator, I recognized immediately the implications of exploring the thirty-four talents outlined in this text for all levels of an educational organization. Teachers would do well to read this book to help bridge students' natural ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 4. How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life | |
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by: Tom Rath, Donald O. Clifton List Price: $19.95 Amazon.com's Price: $13.97 You Save: $5.98 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description On its own, "Now, Discover Your Strengths" is a very interesting read for anyone in a leadership position, but paired with its prequel, "First, Break All the Rules," one can be armed with a self-awareness and understanding of others to create paradigm shifts in nearly any organization. As an educator, I recognized immediately the implications of exploring the thirty-four talents outlined in this text for all levels of an educational organization. Teachers would do well to read this book to help bridge students' natural ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 5. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done | |
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by: Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck List Price: $27.50 Amazon.com's Price: $17.73 You Save: $9.77 (36%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This book describe a necessary leadership behavior in the Execution paradigm -- Insist on realism. As thinking is the basis of action, this concept requires more exploration and explanation. Prior to the introduction of Optimal Thinking into the corporate world, the pervasive motto was Think Positive. Optimism promotes persistence, but it is a poor strategy when the cost of failure or probability of failure are high. With the current integration of Optimal Thinking into leading corporations, the transformation from AnyCorp (consisting ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 6. Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People | |
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by: Stephen R. Covey List Price: $15.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.50 You Save: $4.50 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I am not a person who reads the same book more than one time, but this book makes me read it over and over. I am changing for effective person now through this book. It has enough value to study and research several times to change our basic personal nature. I don't want to describe these 7 specific principles now in advance. However, I am sure that you can't change anything if you just skim these 7 habits. You must study this book. Strengths: First of all, it is easy to read it. It doesn't make us have a hard time figuring out difficult ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 7. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable | |
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by: Patrick M. Lencioni List Price: $22.95 Amazon.com's Price: $16.06 You Save: $6.89 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This book does 3 things that really hit home for me and justify the 5 star rating I gave it: it's completely in touch with REALITY, it's brilliantly SIMPLE in it's presentation of both the problem and the diagnosis and it's 100% APPLICABLE to every management situation I've ever been part of. Too many times, I've encountered management books or consultants who will assemble a list of things to do that's too long to act upon, out of touch with the reality of working on the planet earth or narrow in their application (eg - how to lead teams to develop better software). ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 8. Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! | |
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by: Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter List Price: $16.95 Amazon.com's Price: $11.86 You Save: $5.09 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Discussing money and wealth can be as sensitive an issue for some people as discussing their sex life. The author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad can appeal to many people for whom the subject of investing and earning is very hard to think about. The author describes the difference in attitude and outcome for his "poor" real dad, a professor, and his rich dad, a neighbor who had a gift for investing in real estate and making good business decisions. Many people feel nervous about investing, if not downright scared. Kiyosaki contrasts the two dads in a way that can make even ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 9. Running On Empty: How The Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It | |
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by: Peter G. Peterson List Price: $24.00 Amazon.com's Price: $16.80 You Save: $7.20 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Over the last several years, former Secretary Of Commerce Pete Petersen has become something of a cottage industry in and of himself, writing several books, appearing as a pundit on talk shows, and acting as chairperson for both the Blackstone Group and the prestigious Council for Foreign Relations (CFR). Here he continues the caustic warnings he first articulated in "Gray Dawn", a polemic ranting against the potentially devastating consequences of the graying of the American population and the stress this demographic factor would have on growing federal deficits, the aging population ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 10. Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results | |
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by: Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen List Price: $19.95 Amazon.com's Price: $13.96 You Save: $5.99 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description After all of the hype surrounding "Who Moved My Cheese" in recent months, I am truly surprised that this book has not gotten more media attention. It is an easily readable story that talks about one manager's challenge to turn around the morale of her new, highly negative team, and the innovative fish market that teaches her how to do it. Fish is by far the best book that I have ever read about motivating a team through creative leadership, and isn't that what change management is all about? Many management books provide information on how to begin improving your work environment, ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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