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Accelerated
Learning
The Six-Step Plan To Unlock Your Master-Mind
By Colin Rose and Brian Tracy
Dell Pub Co; March 1998
ISBN: 0440507790
403 Pages
This
package is a combination of six cassette tapes along with
a workbook and other handouts. Colin Rose is a British expert
on accelerated learning techniques and Brian Tracy is a
well-known U.S. peak performance coach. According to Rose
and Tracy, intelligence is not fixed, it is like a muscle
that can be developed, and learning how to learn is the
key. The authors cite several examples where corporations
have successfully used these techniques to improve their
employees learning capacity. For example, one major telephone
company cut their training in half with some of the accelerated
learning techniques described in this package.
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Beating The Street
By Peter Lynch
Fireside, 1994
ISBN 0671891634
332 pages
Peter
Lynch ran the Fidelity Magellan Fund for more 20 years,
during which time Magellan was the number one ranked general
equity fund in America. His books One Up on Wall Street
and Beating the Street are filled with his accumulated wisdom
and in Beating the Street he gives a fairly detailed account
of how he did his analysis.
The first thing that will strike new investors as strange
is that Lynch's methods are actually so simple that mostly
an amateur could use them entirely unchanged and with the
same results. Lynch does not use any gimmicky computer programs,
either to pick stocks or optimize the portfolio for volatility.
Each and every company invested in by Magellan was considered
on its own individual merits, and the managers of Magellan
generally did their very best to completely avoid investing
in anything that consensus opinion from the average Wall
Street analyst declared was a good thing.
Lynch sums up his points in Beating the Street with a number
of humorous "Peter's Principles", which appear
here. Do take the time to read Beating the Street in its
entirety though, as he makes a number of very interesting
points throughout.
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Calm At Work
Breeze Through Your Day Feeling Calm, Relaxed And In Control
By Paul Wilson
Penguin Books, 1999 ISBN: 0452280427
334 Pages
Work
can often be one of the most stressful situations in our
lives. We have to work with people that we don’t necessarily
have anything in common with and perform boring and repetitive
tasks. In the United States and other parts of the world,
you are supposed to look busy at all times. This can add
to the stress since you feel like you are being watched
constantly. Calm at Work offers over 100 practical exercises
and techniques to help you remain calm at work. Here are
the main ideas offered in both Calm at Work, along with
Wilson’s condensed Little Book of Calm at Work.
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Contrarian Investment Strategies
Beat The Market By Going Against The Crowd
By David N. Dreman
Simon & Schuster, June 1998
ISBN 0684813505
464 pages
David
Dreman is the chairman of Dreman Value Advisors, and his
Kemper-Dreman High Return Fund is one of the all time highest
returning funds in America since its debut in 1988. His
strategy is based on an understanding of investor psychology,
in particular using the insight that the market overprices
popular issues and oversells unpopular ones, in short he
is a contrarian investor. His book Contrarian investment
Strategies: The Next Generation is another very well written
book with specific strategies and reams of data to back
it all up. If you liked "What Works on Wall Street"
and "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" then this
is another book with a very similar angle of attack. It
is a fairly big book, running over 400 pages, rivaling Malkiel's
great tome.
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Creativity
In Business
Based On The Famed Stanford University Course That Revolutionized
The Art Of Success
By Michael Ray and Rochelle Myers
Doubleday New York, 1989
ISBN 0-385-24851-2
222 pages
"Live
your life like a work of art".
Business
is actually a very creative form of art. It integrates creativity
and imagination (business plans and ideas) people skills,
organizational skills, and requires a focus and drive that
many artists possess. This book guides you to reach down
to your core Essence - your inner creative resource that
can fuel your personal and professional life.
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Failing
Forward
Turning Mistakes into Stepping-Stones for Success
By John C. Maxwell
Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville 2000
ISBN 0-7852-7430-8 hard cover
ISBN 0-7852-6815-4 paperback
209 pages
Failing
forward tells you how to look at life’s setbacks and
learn from your mistakes. If you haven’t failed at
anything, it means you haven’t really taken a risk
at anything. Failures are only as bad as you perceive them
to be. Life is much better when you live, and try, and fail.
Living requires failing every now and then.
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How Hits Happen
Forecasting Predictability in a Chaotic Marketplace
By Winslow Farrell
Harper Business 2000
ISBN 0-88-730978-X
252 pages
Winslow
Farrell applies the theories of complexity to modern business
systems. How Hits Happen explains how media hits like the
film “Titanic”, or high-demand phenomena like
Tickle-Me-Elmo dolls or Tomagotchi occur, much like predictable
natural phenomena as weather. Farrell’s group specializes
in building market behavior simulators on computers. PriceWaterhouse
Coopers clients come to Farrell and the Emergent Solutions
Group, asking for strategic models of their new products
and ideas, to scientifically study and test whether their
business idea will become the next big thing, or an expensive
flop.
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How To Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci
Seven Steps To Genius Everyday
By Michael Gelb
Dell Publishing, 1998 ISBN: 0385323816
322 Pages
Leonardo
da Vinci is recognized as one of the greatest geniuses of
all time. He excelled in many areas such as the creation
of the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and other classic works.
Besides art, Leonardo was an architect, mathematician, philosopher,
and military planner. Michael Gelb reviews and explains
Leonardo’s notebooks, inventions, and works of art.
He introduces readers to the Seven da Vincian Principles,
essential elements of genius that can be developed. The
book is a collection of illustrations, passages and exercises
designed to stimulate anyone’s awareness of their own
creativity. This summary will briefly explain the seven
principles and provide several of the sample creative exercises.
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Identity Is Destiny
Leadership and the Roots of Value Creation
By Laurence D. Ackerman
Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc. 2000
ISBN 1-57675-068-X
220 pages
Is
your company suffering from an identity crisis?
Corporate
identity goes deeper than simply having a logo design updated,
or hiring an agency to create a snappy tagline and ad campaign.
Organizations can achieve their full potential by living
according to their true identity. The core values create
a corporate identity that every individual in the organization
should believe in and stand up for. A logo design may be
updated with every passing trend, but core values and practices
are timeless and transcend the organization.
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Society of Association Executives
If Life Is A Game These Are The Rules
Ten Rules For Being Human
By Cherie Carter-Scott, PhD
Broadway Book, New York, 1998 ISBN: 0767902386
139 Pages
This
#1 New York Times bestseller offers some useful and understandable
advice that can be applied to many situations. The idea
of life as a series of lessons can help to put things into
perspective and add to anyone’s ability to deal with
setbacks and reach their full potential.
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Inside
Outsourcing
The insider’s guide to managing strategic sourcing
By Charles L. Gay and James Essinger
Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2000
ISBN 1-85788-204-0
245 pages
How
can organizations use outsourcing to its full potential,
as a strategic business tool?
Maximize
your company’s efficiency, profitability, and cost-effective
operations while allowing flexibility and building a greater
customer franchise. From decision-making to implementation
– to identifying what a company does more creatively
than its competition- the big idea becomes clear not only
through theory but in this book’s practical and detailed
examination of strategic outsourcing processes. Backed up
by case studies on Rolls Royce, Bethlehem Steel, Pharmacia
Upjohn, Gillette, and DuPont, Inside Outsourcing offers
points to help streamline your operations and maximize service
quality.
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Managing
At The Speed Of Change
How Resilient Managers Succeed And Prosper Where Others
Fail
By Daryl R. Conner
Villard books/Random House 1992
ISBN 0-679-40684-0
282 pages
Written
a decade ago but still very useful for today’s world,
this book will help you if you need to know:
Why do some people absorb change quicker and adapt faster
than others?
Why do some companies flourish during turbulent times while
others flounder?
Why software systems changes may cause less havoc than moving
the paper clips and envelopes to the other room?
With
key insights into the fear of change many of us encounter,
and many important lessons to understanding how humans,
the most controlling type of species on the planet, can
better work with change when it happens.
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Practical Intuition for Success
A step-by-step program to increase your wealth today
By Laura Day
Harper Collins Publishers
ISBN 0-06-017576-1
216 pages
At
the heart of this book is one simple message: You will achieve
success by being true to yourself. Through this unique program
of practical exercises, you will be able to listen to your
intuition and balance it with other factors that influence
your everyday decision-making. The more you practice, the
better the results. The feeling in your gut can tell you
if something feels right or wrong, profitable or problematic.
It will help you make better decisions, take the “pulse”
at meetings, and unleash your own creativity.
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Selling The Invisible
A Field Guide to Modern Marketing
By Harry Beckwith
Warner Books NY 1997
ISBN 0-446-52094-2
252 pages
A
classic book on marketing services, with hundreds of quick,
practical, easy-to-read sections; perfect for picking up
anytime throughout your day. Beckwith tells you in simple
and plain language why focus groups don’t really tell
you anything, what positioning really is, and outlines eighteen
common planning fallacies. A basic marketing guide that
refreshes the mind after reading so many gurus and faddish
ideas, now here’s a book with timeless ground rules
that are supported by real world stories.
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Secrets Of Successful Speakers
How You Can Motivate, Captivate & Persuade
By Lilly Walters
McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1993
ISBN 0070680345
216 Pages
This
book is an excellent resource for anyone who needs to learn
effective techniques for public speaking. Walters has compiled
quotes and advice from dozens of well-known speakers such
as Steve Allen, Ken Blanchard, Tony Robbins and others.
These ideas are interwoven around Walters’ categories
for preparing for a speech, overcoming stage fright, motivating
an audience, etc. Some of the advice below is written first-person
as given from the expert ("I cure stage fright by -
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Self Motivation
Developing Self-Reliance, Persevering With Challenges
By Gael Lindenfield
Thorsons, London, 2000 ASIN: 0722540213
256 pages
Gail
Lindenfield is a well-known British author who has written
several self-help books. In Self Motivation, she does a
good job of going over many aspects of self development
and she provides solutions to a variety of everyday problems.
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The
100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws Of Business Success
By Brian Tracy
Berrett-Koehler Publishing, June 2000
ISBN 1576751074
300 Pages
Human
potential expert Brian Tracy has applied many laws of effective
self development to the field of business and created a
fascinating and easily understandable guide that can enhance
both your personal and professional life. He explains each
of the 100 laws in theoretical detail and then applies them
to various aspects of business, career enhancement, creativity
and financial reward. These laws are from Tracy’s speaking
and consulting experience throughout the world.
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The 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leader
Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow
By John C. Maxwell
Thomas Nelson Inc 1999
ISBN 0-7852-7440-5 Hard cover
ISBN 0-7852-6796-4 Paper back
161 pages
Leadership
is an art form. To become a good leader, you have to begin
working on improving yourself. Filled with enlightening
anecdotes that illustrate the qualities of the world’s
greatest leaders, this must-read for any entrepreneur, manager,
or executive will bring valuable lessons to push you in
the right direction towards the fulfillment of your leadership
roles.
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The Seven Spiritual Laws Of Success
A Practical Guide To The Fulfillment of Your Dreams
By Deepak Chopra. M.D.
Amber-Allen Pub 1995
ISBN: 1878424114
115 Pages
Dr.
Deepak Chopra is a well-known author of more than 25 books.
He is one of the leading spokespersons for a growing movement
of physicians who are combining modern Western medicine
with ancient Eastern healing methods. Chopra was formerly
the Chief of Staff at Boston Regional Medical Center, and
he has taught at Tufts University and Boston University
Schools of Medicine. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
is a short but insightful book that explains how simple
actions can make a big difference. Some parts of it may
appear abstract to those who have not experienced Eastern
philosophy.
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What The CEO Wants You To Know
How your company really works
By Ram Charan
Random
House 2001
ISBN 0-609-60839-8
123 pages
From
running a multi-billion dollar business to selling fruit
on the street, the CEO and the vendor share the same street-smart
instincts or “business acumen” that are the essential
skills to running a business. A CEO wants his or her people
to understand business basics, from cash flow, to ROI, to
sniffing out new opportunities and eventually becoming more
involved in the decision-making that leads to bigger profits.
The more you get what the CEO wants you to know, the faster
your company will grow!
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What Works In Wall Street
A Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of
All Time
By James O'Shaughnessey
McGraw-Hill Trade, 1998
ISBN 0070482462
325 Pages
It
is amazing to reflect how little systematic knowledge Wall
Street has to draw upon as regards the historical behavior
of securities with defined characteristics. We do, of course,
have charts showing the long-term price movements of stock
groups and individual stocks. But there is no real classification
here, except by type of business. Where is the continuous,
ever growing body of knowledge and technique handed down
by the analysts of the past to those of the present and
future? When we contrast the annals of medicine with those
of finance, the paucity of our recorded and digested experience
becomes a reproach. We lack the codified experience which
will tell us whether codified experience is valuable or
valueless. In the years to come we analysts must go to school
to learn the older established disciplines. We must study
their ways of amassing and scrutinizing facts and from this
study develop methods of research suited to the peculiarities
of our own field of work. - Ben Graham, 1946
What Works on Wall Street, by James P. O'Shaughnessy has
been around only since 1998, but has already been hailed
as one of the great classics of investment. O'Shaughnessy
was the first person not an employee of Standard and Poors
to gain access to the S&P Compustat Database, the most
important and complete repository of fundamental and technical
stock data in the world. The project that inspired this
book was to computer backtest the data using various fundamental
formula searches in order to find out what styles of investment
have actually made profits in the last 50 years or so. It
is a huge book, 366 pages long, so this little summary here
hardly does it justice. This book is not just good, it is
downright momentous, an amazing book that cuts through a
century of Wall Street lore to show exactly what techniques
pay off, you absolutely must get a copy and read it!!! In
very brief form, this is what O'Shaughnessy found.
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What Would Buddha Do At Work
101 Answers to Workplace Dilemmas
By Franz Metcalf & BJ Gallagher Hateley
ISBN 0-07-121038-5
McGraw-Hill 2002
170 pages
Using
the teachings of Buddha in real-world workplace situations,
this little book of wisdom will inspire employees, employers,
executives, and entrepreneurs alike with its practical answers
to everyday problems dealing with the self, with others,
and everyday decisions. You always have a choice on how
you will react to pressures, and conduct yourself each day.
It’s about how you use the freedom of choice in the
moment to become a better worker, and to find your own path
to enlightenment.
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Your Best Year Yet
Ten Questions for Making the Next Twelve Months Your Most
Successful Ever
By Jinny S. Ditzler
Warner Books, 2000 ISBN: 0446675474
230 Pages
Here
is a book with a thought-provoking questionnaire recommended
for anyone who is either new to the field of personal growth,
or want to take themselves to the next level. The first
part of the book is largely a personal account of how the
author developed the workshop and how it helped her and
her husband reach their goals. The book and questionnaire
is challenging, yet easy to follow and can help readers
sort to out their beliefs, values, roles and goals.
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