SUCCESS in business

SUCCESS in business

 
Smarts Martin, Chuck | Dawson, Peg | Guare, Richard AMACOM , 2007 Personal Growth

Why do certain tasks seem easier for some people than for others? Why do some individuals excel in one job and flounder in another? Why are personal weaknesses relatively stable and difficult to change?

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Run With the Bulls Without Getting Trampled Irwin, Tim Nelson Business , 2007 Personal Growth, Relationships

Author Tim Irwin uses his experience running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain as a profound metaphor for individuals’ professional lives. Work, although often filled with opportunities, can also be plagued by dangers...

 
 
A Leader's Legacy Kouzes, James M. | Posner, Barry Z. Jossey-Bass , 2006 Leadership, Personal Growth

Kouzes and Posner's The Leadership Challenge was first published in 1987, and revised in 1996 and 2002, to become one of the bestselling leadership books of all time. Although each revision was offered to address the...

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Purpose Mourkogiannis, Nikos1 Palgrave MacMillian , 2006 Leadership, Management, Social Responsibility

Not all companies have a purpose, but enduringly successful ones do. What matters most for long-lasting achievement are the ideas that drive people’s inspiration.

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Success Built to Last Porras, Jerry | Emery, Stewart | Thompson, Mark Wharton School Publishing , 2007 Entrepreneurship, Personal Growth

People who make an impact doing what matters most to them have the potential for enduring success. Some of the world’s most enduringly successful people have become so by harvesting their failures and summoning the...

 
 
The Next Level Eblin, Scott Davies-Black Publishing , 2006 Human Resources, Management, Personal Growth

40 percent of new executives fail in their positions within eighteen months of promotion. Could it be that CEOs and executive teams have chosen the wrong person for the job nearly half the time? Scott Eblin doesn’t...

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The DNA of Leadership Glaser, Judith E. Adams Media , 2006 Human Resources, Leadership, Personal Growth

In The DNA of Leadership, which follows her successful Creating WE, author Judith Glaser identifies the seven leadership practices that can re-shape an organization into a culture that...

 
 
Power Mentoring Ensher, Ellen E. | Murphy, Susan E. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2006 Human Resources, Leadership Development, Personal Growth

Today, few employees spend their entire career at one company. Some people move from company to company in search of raises and promotions; while some move from project to project. Employment patterns have also changed...

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The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning Wick, Calhoun | Pollock, Roy | Jefferson, Andrew | Flanagan, Richard Pfeiffer , 2006 Human Resources, Personal Growth

Training and development is often viewed as expendable, a department that is nice to have when times are good, but one that organizations can do without when times are bad. This line of reasoning exists because many...

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Managing Global Accounts Capon, Noel | Potter, Dave | Schindler, Fred South-Western Educational Publishing , 2006 Customer Focus, Global Business, Management

Managing a company’s global accounts is not the same as managing national accounts, and any business that tries to move from national to global accounts without careful consideration and planning is doomed to fail....