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 BOOK CATEGORY : Personal Development
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Order From Chaos
"A 6-Step Plan for Organizing Yourself, Your Office, and Your Life"
By Liz Davenport
Three Rivers Press NY, Random House Inc. 2001
ISBN 0-609-80777-3
215 pages


Liz Davenport offers an easy system to help you clean up your act. If you find yourself missing important deadlines, forgetting to return calls, and misplacing papers, then follow these six simple steps to organizational freedom.

Why get organized? The average businessperson wastes 150 hours each year just looking for stuff. If you got organized, you could accomplish more, and take longer vacations, ultimately freeing your workspace, and your mind, of unnecessary clutter.

 
Permission To Win
By Ray Pelletier
Oakhill Press, 1997
ISBN 1 886939 10 1
201 pages


From a new breed of motivators, America’s Attitude Coach Ray Pelletier gives you a practical guide for translating your personal mission into concrete action. Make today your January 1st. Say goodbye to negative thoughts and change your life by giving yourself Permission to Win.

 
Please Don't Shoot The Messenger
How to talk to demanding bosses, clueless colleagues, tough customers, and difficult clients without losing your cool (or your job!)
By Dr. Gary S. Goodman
Published Contemporary Publishing Group 2000
ISBN 0-8092-2520-4
183 pages


Whether it’s asking your boss for a raise, or dismissing an employee as painlessly as possible, this book addresses all kinds of thorny situations, how we can effectively communicate in business situations, and calmly manage potential conflict.

 
48 Laws of Power, The
By Robert Greene
Penguin Books 2000
Hardcover Edition ISBN 0-670-88146-5
Paperback Edition ISBN 0 14 02.8019 7
452 pages


A comprehensive, well-researched synthesis of timeless philosophies -from Machiavelli to Suntzu, as applied in real-life situations by powerful figures in history such as Queen Elizabeth I and Henry Kissinger. Absorbing and entertaining, this book lends business people a wealth of ideas on the subtle art of playing the power game, exercising clever cunning, and understanding human weaknesses. Whether it is in the boardroom, at a power lunch, or a cocktail party — these laws will make you master of the game and give you the edge over your rivals.
 
 Power Principle, The
“Influence With Honor”
By Stephen M.R. Covey and Blaine Lee
A Fireside book by Simon & Schuster 1998
ISBN 0-684-81058-1
Pbk 0-684-84616-0
363 pages


Dr. Blaine Lee outlines useful methods to overcome powerlessness, emphasizing that in our business or personal lives, we are always faced with a Choice. This is a book for people who need to understand the greatest power is that which comes through integrity, how principle-centered power, or the way you live your life, is the way to getting the kind of power, respect, and honor that outlasts a lifetime.

 
Who Moved My Cheese
By Dr. Spencer Johnson
2000 Vermilion UK, Random House Group Ltd.
ISBN 0 09 181 697 1
96 pages


Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in life - whether it is a good job, a loving relationship, money, or spiritual peace of mind. Cheese is what we think will make us happy, and when circumstances take it away, different people deal with change in different ways. Four characters in this delightful parable represent parts of ourselves whenever we are confronted with change. Discover how you can let change work to your advantage and let it lead you to success!

 
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.
 
Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century
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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Innervation
Redesign Yourself For A Smarter Future
By Guy Browning
ISBN 1843 04002 6
Pearson Education Limited UK 2001
213 pages


Here is a funny, frank, and refreshing book on how to not only survive but succeed in today’s new economy – or at least get what you want out of life and work while stepping on as few people as possible. This one tackles the big issues like what kind of person do you really want to be (a bastard? there are many of them in business) – are you living for the future or are you stuck in an old economy dinosaur company? Guy Browning says exactly what nobody else dares to say about real-life/work issues, and that’s why it’s so fresh.

Redesigning yourself means working hard on the brand that is You. How do you get out of the rut you’re currently in? What are the new Ten Commandments for the millennium? How do you learn to really listen, relax, work, and be happy? Everything from sexual politics to creativity, to trashing old economy leaders, discovering the real meaning of networking, and making effective, short, and simple communications, to managing people who are “less talented and good looking” than yourself – it’s all in a light and punchy addition to your business library.

 
 Your Road Map for Success
You CAN Get There From Here
By John C. Maxwell
Thomas Nelson Publishers 2002
ISBN 0785265961
230 pages


John C. Maxwell, best-selling author of the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, begins this book by sharing an article about how people define success. He reveals that most people who want to be successful misunderstand success, that it is an ideal situation incorporating impossible elements. Some want to have the beauty of a Cindy Crawford or the business acumen of a Bill Gates. He redefines success but stating what it is not. It is not wealth, not a feeling of success, specific possessions, power or achievement. He then cites specific examples of well-known personalities who had achieved all these but could still not consider themselves succesful.

 
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff...and it’s all small stuff
Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life
By Richard Carlson, Ph.D.
Hyperion, New York, 1997
ISBN 0-7868-8185-2
248 pages

The co-author of “Handbook for the Soul” offers 100 simple but powerful strategies for bringing harmony and peace of mind into individual life. The strategies allow for changes in paradigm and changes in practice — changes that can lead to a more relaxed and more satisfying life.
 
Make a Life, Not Just A Living
10 Timeless Life Skills That Will Maximize Your Real Worth
By Dr. Ron Jenson
“America's Life Coach”
Broadman & Holman Publishers
ASIN 0805419845
232 pages


This book provides us with a healthy number of principles and wisdoms to live by, in order to be happy and truly make a life, especially in today's highly materially oriented world. These principles on how to live happily and contentedly, according to Dr. Jenson, the book's author, are intended to serve as a map or a model in order to look at life afresh and where it matters.
 
Brand Called You, The
The Ultimate Brand-Building and Business Development Handbook to
Transform Anyone into an Indispensable Personal Brand

By Peter Montoya with Tim Vandehey
Personal Branding Press, 2001
ISBN: 0-9674506-5-9
280 pages
www.petermontoya.com

What does it mean to consider yourself a brand? When Ralph Lifshitz wanted to become a famous fashion designer, he didn't start by working 24 hours a day designing clothes. The first thing he did was to change his name to Ralph Lauren. Branding seeks to create a better perception. Not a better product. So your role is to make the changes necessary to create a better perception. The principles for creating a “Personal Brand” are spelled out in great detail in “The Brand Called You.” In this book, you will understand, too, that it's not enough “to understand the principles.” What you will need further is the flexibility of mind to actually adopt and use these principles.
 
 Wise Moves
60 Quick Tips to Improve Your Position in Life & Business
By George Ludwig
CRL Publishing Group, 2003
ISBN 0-9740223-0-6
113 pages


This book on enhancing your dealings, both in life and in business, offers 20 valuable tips on improving your position in life, 20 tips on improving your position in business, and 20 timeless quotes on the art of making an extraordinary life.
 
 Art of the Start, The
The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
Guy Kawasaki
Portfolio
2004
ISBN 1591840562
215 pages


You have the idea of a lifetime and yet you do not know where and how to begin. It is a dilemma shared by entrepreneurs everywhere - what does it take to turn a great idea into action?

Author Guy Kawasaki brings two decades of business experience to offer a definitive guide for anyone who dreams of starting anything. Whether you are thinking of starting a start-up Internet operation or a church group, The Art of the Start will provide you with everything you need to know from raising money to fostering a community.

 
8th Habit , The
From Effectiveness to Greatness
By Stephen M.R. Covey
Free Press, 2004
ISBN 0684846659
432 pages


For years, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”has become a bible for individuals and executives who seek to improve their lives and their careers.

According to author Stephen M. R. Covey , effectiveness is the tool for survival in today’s fast-paced environment. However, in order to truly become excellent and succeed in the new Knowledge Worker Age, you must build on and move beyond effectiveness and into greatness. You must find your own voice and inspire others to find their own voices as well.

Finding your voice requires a shift in thinking. To succeed in your journey towards greatness, you need a new mindset, a new skill-set and a new habit. Stephen M. R. Covey ’s “The 8 th Habit” will guide you as you take the necessary change into greatness.

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33 Strategies of War, The
Robert Greene
Viking (Penguin Group), 2006
ISBN: 0-670-03457-6
496 Pages


It has been a customary perception that peace-loving people triumph more in life.  Few realize that this is the very idea that acts as a barrier to realizing and identifying indispensable provisions to thrive in the challenges of day-to-day living. 

Day after day, you will be faced with numerous conflicts that demand the need to engage in constant struggle or battle.  Bestselling author Robert Greene shares 33 effective strategies of war to guide you through the realistic battlefield called life. 

 
Crucial Conversations
Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
By Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler
McGraw-Hill, 2002
ISBN: 0-07-140194-6
240 Pages


The term ‘crucial conversation’ evokes images of great statesmen or men of consequence meeting and discussing issues that will shape the world. That sort of interaction is not the kind the authors of this book have in mind; they are concerned with the sort of interactions that happen to everyone.

Crucial conversations are defined as discussions between two people where stakes are high, opinions vary and emotions run strong. These are day-to-day occurrences that affect everyone’s lives – in many cases, these are pivotal conversations whose results may be extremely significant. An element of one’s daily routine could be forever altered, for better or for worse. Plus by dealing with even one conversation in a particular way, you determine a pattern of behavior that shows up in all subsequent conversations.

This book, then, is the authors’ stab at teaching others how to handle – and even master – crucial conversations, and by doing so change their lives.



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