Personal Growth

Personal Growth

 
How to Be Great at The Stuff You Hate Davies, Nick Capstone Publishing , 2012 Marketing, Personal Growth

In How to Be Great at the Stuff You Hate, author Nick Davies aims to help readers face a crucial fact: most people in sales hate the actual act of selling. In general, the act of selling someone on a...

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How Successful People Think Maxwell, John C. Center Street , 2009 Personal Growth

In all aspects of life, from the professional world to family interactions, good thinkers help solve problems. In How Successful People Think, Maxwell discusses the 11 skills that good thinkers exhibit...

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How Risky Is It, Really? Ropeik, David McGraw-Hill , 2010 Management, Personal Growth

In How Risky Is It, Really?, David Ropeik discusses how the human brain determines whether a person is at risk and the methods it takes to reach that conclusion. Today, significant advances in...

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How Seidman, Dov John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2008 Leadership, Management, Personal Growth

Krazy George Henderson, on an October day in 1981 at Oakland Stadium, invented the sweep of crowd enthusiasm now known as the Wave. His seemingly trivial feat of coordinating humans to work together toward a common...

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Hold On, You Lost Me! McCarthy, Bernice | O'Neill-Blackwell, Jeanine ASTD Press , 2007 Leadership Development, Personal Growth

In Hold On, You Lost Me, authors Bernice McCarthy and Jeanine O’Neill-Blackwell assert that every person has an individual learning style, one that dictates how information is perceived and processed...

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High Altitude Leadership Warner, Chris | Schmincke, Don Jossey-Bass , 2009 Leadership, Personal Growth

In High Altitude Leadership, Chris Warner and Don Schmincke, apply the lessons learned in the world of extreme mountaineering to the world of business. According to the authors, the dangers faced by...

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Harvesting Intangible Assets Sherman, Andrew J. AMACOM , 2012 Innovation, Personal Growth

In a sense, all people are farmers; marking their turf, planting seeds, nurturing them, and preparing for the harvest. People follow a deeply rooted agricultural-like process in their daily lives, hoping that the...

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Happiness at Work Pryce-Jones, Jessica John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2010 Human Resources, Personal Growth

The old saw says that money cannot buy happiness. But what about the reverse? Does happiness matter in the workplace? In Happiness at Work, Jessica Pryce-Jones demonstrates that happy employees are...

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Great Work, Great Career Covey, Stephen R. | Colosimo, Jennifer FranklinCovey Publishing , 2009 Personal Growth

In Great Work, Great Career, authors Stephen R. Covey and Jennifer Colosimo discuss the immense opportunities the new “knowledge” economy has presented to the working population. They outline the ways...

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Great Leaders Grow Blanchard, Ken | Miller, Mark Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. , 2012 Leadership, Personal Growth

In Great Leaders Grow, best-selling business author Ken Blanchard teams with Chick-fil-A vice president Mark Miller to guide executives on the path to becoming great leaders. The authors assert that...

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