Archive for March, 2009

Lessons of Experience: How Successful Executives Develop on the Job: Morgan W. McCall, Michael M. Lombardo, Ann M. Morrison

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Tells how to learn from job assignments, fellow workers, and hardships, shares the lessons of successful executives, and shows how to evaluate the developmental value of a job.

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Fun Works: Creating Places Where People Love to Work: Leslie Yerkes, Jim Kouzes

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Yerkes offers tips, examples, and motivation to help readers, their coworkers, and their customers unleash the power of fun in the workplace. Through real-life case studies and interviews with dozens of leading authors and everyday people, the author illustrates 11 principles of what she calls “The Work/Fun Fusion”.
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A Healthy Dose of Motivation: Includes ‘The Aladdin Factor’ and ‘Dare to Win’: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen

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“They warmed your soul with Chicken Soup. Now the brilliant motivational team of Canfield and Hansen reveal the secret to getting everything your heart desires.” —Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager
–This text refers to the
Audio CD
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Even Eagles Need a Push: Learning to Soar in a Changing World: David Mcnally

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“This is a self-help book that helps! It works! Four stars:”–Larry King
“It is a book for the 90s. You must read it!”–Pat Riley, author of The Winner Within and former head coach of the New York Knicks
“Even Eagles Need a Push caused me to evaluate [...]

What Are Your Goals: Powerful Questions to Discover What You Want Out of Life: Gary Ryan Blair

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Blair’s approach involves asking pointed and directed questions to help uncover pathways in life which lead to goals achievement. This isn’t a set of guidelines; but a workbook based on questions which asks pertinent questions and invites readers to respond. — Midwest Book Review
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An Iron Will: Orison Swett Marden

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In an Iron Will Orison Swett Marden explains that will power is the single most important ingredient in success. Learn how to develop will power and then how to focus and direct it into success. If you have will power there is nothing that you will not be able to reach [...]

Organized for Success : Top Executives and CEOs Reveal the Organizing Principles That Helped Them Reach the Top: Stephanie Winston

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In this groundbreaking guide, Stephanie Winston explains how she discovered, after more than two decades as a leading organization expert and bestselling author, that senior executives and CEOs seem to possess unique conceptual skills in the areas of time management and organization that enable them to dramatically increase their productivity. Intrigued [...]

Ping: A Frog in Search of a New Pond: Stuart Avery Gold

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From Publishers Weekly
A glib amalgamation of Taoism, business advice and self-help axioms, this brief, cutely illustrated business parable seeks to capture fans of Who Moved My Cheese? Gold (Tiger Heart, Tiger Mind, etc.) follows the adventures of a frog named Ping, who’s forced into risky [...]

Vital Factors: The Secret to Transforming Your Business - And Your Life: Lee Froschheiser, Paul Chutkow, Barry Kemp

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From Publishers Weekly
As the authors state in their introduction, “highly succesful companies have not unearthed any magic formulas … they simply focused tightly on their business fundamentals.” Those fundamentals are Froschheiser’s Vital Factors, “the critical component parts” of a business and the core idea behind [...]

Millionaire’s Notebook: How Ordinary People Can Achieve Extraordinary Success: Steven K. Scott

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Frank Gifford ABC Sports Steve Scott’s career reminds me of my own football career. Everyone was always saying I was too slow and not big enough. I bounced ail over the place until I met a guy named Vince Lombardi. Steve talks of commitment, [...]