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Good
To Great
Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and
Others Don't
By Jim Collins
Co-author of 'Built To Last'
Random House, Inc, London 2001
ISBN: 0066620996
300 pages
Collins
and his team explore what goes into a company's transformation
from mediocre to excellent. Based on empirical evidence
and volumes of data, the team uncovers timeless principles
on how the Good to Great companies produced sustained great
results and achieved enduring greatness, evolving into
companies that were indeed 'Built to Last'.
Gung
Ho!
Increase Productivity, Profits, and Your Own
Prosperity
By Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles
1998 Harper Collins Business
ISBN 0 00 653068 0
187 pages
From
a classic story about a plant called Walton Works #2, here
are invaluable management lessons on increasing productivity
by fostering high morale. It will work for any type of
organization! Based on three core ideas: work must be seen
as important, workers must be in control of their own production,
and managers must cheer workers on. This is a tried and
tested Native American recipe for surefire success. Follow
the step-by-step game plan to implementing each idea, and
boost your company's profit, energy, enthusiasm and performance!
High
Trust Selling
Make more money in less time with less stress
By
Todd Duncan
Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville 2002
ISBN 0 7852 6393 4
252 pages
If
you’re serious about the business
of selling, if you are tired of living from one sale to the
next, and you
want to keep clients for life, then read this book and
apply these valuable lessons that add value to what you are
selling,
and to your life. The whole premise is to serve fewer clients
a high quality experience and build long-lasting relationships,
resulting in more free time to spend with your family and
friends, less stress, greater income, and genuine success
for you!
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. Farrells 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.
How to Become A Rainmaker
The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients
By Jeffrey J. Fox
ISBN 0 7868 6595 4
Hyperion New York 2000
169 pages
Inspired by Native American tradition, the
Rainmaker is one who uses his power to bring rain to nourish
crops that feed the tribe. In sales, a rainmaker is the revenue-bringer
to a company. She brings the very lifeblood of the organization
and makes the cash register ring. Here are the rules to being
the Rainmaker, the salesperson that gets and keeps customers.
How To Sell And Manage In Tough Times and Tough
Markets
You can thrive, not just survive, in tough times!
By Tom Reilly
Motivation Press, August 2001
ISBN 0-944448-22-4
135 pages
This book offers practical tips and advice
on how salespeople and managers can effectively steer their
way through times
Tough times happen when you have an extended
period of declining economic activity. In business terms,
tough times happen when supply is greater than demand, creating
the proverbial buyer’s market. It’s a different
kind of tough times when demand is greater than supply. It
then becomes a “seller’s market.” Though
sounding great, it brings with it another set of problems
for sales people. It’s tough times when you must work
harder, finding it difficult to get ahead. It doesn’t
necessarily have to be a full-blown recession: if your company
can’t ship products for whatever reason, the times
may be rough.
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 Leonardos
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 anyones awareness of their
own creativity. This summary will briefly explain the seven principles
and provide several of the sample creative exercises.
How To Work With Just About Anyone
"A THREE-STEP SOLUTION FOR GETTING DIFFICULT
PEOPLE TO CHANGE"
By Lucy Gill
A Fireside Book/ Simon and Schuster 1999
ISBN 0-684-85527-5
206 pages
Because
every office has that one difficult person to work with,
who affects overall productivity due to a terrible attitude,
chronic tardiness, or simply drives everyone else up the
wall. Here is the answer to common problems in conflict
management. Dealing with negative behavior whether at work
or at home can be solved with three steps:
Get
to the heart of the matter. Determine what problem-solving
methods to avoid so you don't perpetuate the conflict.
Choose a different, surprising approach to solve the problem
and keep it solved.
Finally,
here is your key to sanity in the workplace, drawn from
forty years of research and professional experience in
consulting on the prevention and management of nonproductive
behavior.
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.
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 anyones ability to deal with
setbacks and reach their full potential.
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!
Inside
Outsourcing
The insiders 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 companys 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 books 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.
Investing
In A Post-Enron World
Tactics to help “Enron-proof” your
portfolio, a fast course in becoming a “financial
sleuth”, methods of learning the true value of stocks
By Paul Jorion
McGraw Hill 2003
ISBN 0 07 140938 6
244 pages
The
high-profile implosions of America’s top corporations
like Enron, and the questionable accounting methods of
Arthur Andersen, forces investors to become wary of a company’s
ethical standards, and creates a need for clear warning
signals and information to be able to protect oneself.
Digging deep into the footnotes of annual reports, and
searching for the true story of what really went on with
those inflated numbers, this book educates the investor
in the complicated game of deception played by the inner
circle of this giant. The bigger they are, the harder they
fall indeed.
Leading
On The Edge of Chaos
The 10 Critical Elements For Success In Volatile Times
By Emmett C. Murphy and Mark A. Murphy
Prentice Hall 2002
ISBN 0 7352 0312 1
226 pages
A timely book for today’s chaotic economy, the Murphy’s
suggest 10 key strategies for business leaders. If you fail
to deliver, a volatile market can be terribly unforgiving.
How you handle uncertainty will determine your company’s
success.
Make a Life
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.
Management
of The Absurd
Paradoxes in Leadership
By
Richard Farson
Simon & Schuster1997
ISBN 0 684 80080 2
172 pages
To understand basic human behavior and relations, we
must first recognize that most often it is irrational,
and we cannot simply answer leadership problems with
trendy, simplistic formulas. This artfully written and
unique book is fresh in its perspective, offering an
out-of-the-box approach and exploring a new way of looking
at things.
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 todays 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.
MONEY
"Who Has How Much and Why"
By Andrew Hacker
Simon&Schuster/1997
ISBN 0-684-19646-8 /0-684-84662-4 paperback
254 pages
America's
gulf between the rich and poor has grown wider than ever.
The disparity between the income of men and women, white
and black is still evident, while the number of self-made
millionaires has grown along with the number of individuals
who take home $100,000 a year. Indeed, there are more millionaires,
but there are also more neglected children, more single
mothers, and more citizens in prison. The founding fathers
of the United States Constitution outlined how the nation
would grow with an economy that would acknowledge "diversity
in the faculties of men" and such has occurred in
the years that followed the statements of James Madison
and Alexander Hamilton. Here are the facts about who has
the money in the world's most powerful nation.
Mind
Your Own Business
A Maverick's Guide to Business, Leadership and Life
By Sidney Harman
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 2003
ISBN 0-385-50959-6
208 pages
A maverick is an independent person who will not go along with the other members of a group (Oxford ESL Dictionary).
This book provides priceless stories and insights from a maverick of the business world; an exemplary business leader who prefers not to follow orthodox beliefs in business, nor be eaten by the hyped up ideas of the present.
Instead, he chooses the course of action that is appropriate for the changing times.
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