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StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths
Tom Rath
Gallup Press, 2007
Awesome!
I am the manager of a large Salon/Day Spa and we purchased a copy of this book for each of our employees. It is helping us learn how to manage each person based on their personality strengths rather than their weaknesses. They are also having a great time learning ...
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The One Minute Entrepreneur: The Secret to Creating and Sustaining a Successful Business
Ken Blanchard, Don Hutson, ...
Doubleday Business, 2008
Buy this title! It is a story with great lessons and its fun....
Mr. Blanchard is a master story teller in regards to business. This little book will consume less than two hours. The lessons revealed can take an entire career to discover on your own.
Jud and Terri have a dream. Jud learns early on that the best source of ...
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Random House, 2007
Interesting book to read...difficult to apply
I thought this book was a really interesting read, but it wasn't one where you can easily see how to apply what you read.
For instance, the author does a great job of demonstrating how random life can be...for example, the stories about the true risks of a Las Vegas ...
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002
get it together
and this book will organize your life. make the time as a priority, and it's a life-changer - for the good. consistency is the key, though. if not on top of weekly reviews, you just fall back to the natural state of disorder.
if you're committed, you'll fly.
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The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Timothy Ferriss
Crown, 2007
Suspend your critical mind and you'll get HUGE rewards.
I received an unusual telephone call a few months ago from my friend David:
"Whatever you're doing right now, stop and go out and buy The 4-Hour Workweek," he said from his cell phone. He was on the beach, reading Timothy Ferriss's amazing, popular and controversial ...
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The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crash of 2008 and What It Means
George Soros
PublicAffairs, 2008
Hits the nail squarely on the head
There are three books that should be read in order to begin to understand where we stand financially in the world today. Second and third are Soros' present book and Morris''The Trillion Dollar Meltdown'. The first and most basic is the one that I reviewed last year: ...
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Dan Ariely
HarperCollins, 2008
Amazing view of the human condition, really amazing!
If you have an interest in why we do the things we do that show little to no logic over and over again, this book will provide superior insight.
It tells us how and why choices (and too many of them) skews our vision and leads us to irrational behavior from lovers ...
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Harmonic Wealth: The Secret of Attracting the Life You Want
James Arthur Ray
Hyperion, 2008
A must read for the person serious about creating change!
A fantastic book that provides tools and exercises you can put to work right away. I've been out of work for almost six months and was beginning to wonder what I was going to do. Since putting the advice in the section on the 'Financial Pillar' into practice, I've ...
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Jim Collins
Collins, 2001
How to go from good to great
I like the way 'Good to Great' outlines many corporate leadership attributes, especially discipline, which is rare these days. I can honestly say Mr Collins' book is helping my company go from OK-ordinary-good to great, as shown by our bottom line. Lately, I picked up ...
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
Free Press, 2004
Give direction to you life
I have had this book on my reading list for a while. This books has been a valuable catalyst in my personal development. On one hand there is very little that is shocking. As the author freely admits, he does not consider the principles that these habits embody to be ...
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Stop the 401(k) Rip-off!: Eliminate Costly Hidden Fees to Improve Your Life
David B. Loeper
Bridgeway Books, 2007
A must read for 401(k) participants and 401(k) administrators
Hidden fees are a drag on your wealth accumulation and retirement goals. To have a better and richer retirement, read this book. Share it with your boss and your H/R department. Don't accept over priced 401(k)'s -- fight back!
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Patrick M. Lencioni
Jossey-Bass, 2002
Great resource
This book was an excellent reasource for team building. We used it on a couple off site meetings and it really helped get us moving towards working out our issues. It helps put everyone on the same page and eliminates finger pointing. I've loved all of his books so ...
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Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Stephen J. Dubner
William Morrow, 2006
This book gets me thrown out of parties
Freakonomics gets me thrown out of a lot of parties. Now that I know what really makes the world turn I cannot resist butting in on folk's conversations and putting them right.
`Zero tolerance', someone will say, `that's what cut crime in New York'.
`No it didn't', ...
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
Yale University Press, 2008
Something new under the sun...
Thaler and Sunstein pulled off something fairly rare and valuable in this book; they offered up a social/political idea that isn't currently being offered up by either the Republicans or the Democrats, but is still politically viable for either party. That's a good ...
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Pocket, 1998
Bought the book and I love it
The book basically teaches you the common sense about human psychology. I strongly suggest everyone to read over this book. It will help you on day to day basis. Simply because common sense this days are not so common this days anymore. This book put common sense right ...
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