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A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix
Edwin H. Friedman
Seabury Books, 2007
Now We Know Why the World Lacks Enough True Leaders
INTRODUCTION
Of all the leadership books I've read, Edwin Friedman's book is my favorite. I appreciate his message for leaders, especially in the church and other service organizations, where the people's success depends on the audacity of leadership. Sadly, too ...
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Heart and Soul
Knopf, 2009
Good Read
Mauve Binchy does it well with this book; it has interesting characters, she takes you along to the journey of their lives in this brief year in which they have all bonded together as a family. I enjoyed the book very much. with books like these one often hopes that ...
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How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
Jim Collins
Jim Collins, 2009
Hubris before the fall . . .
The silent creep of impending doom is the title Collins chose for the first chapter in this excellent review of how companies go astray. As usual, Collins did an in depth research to discover why companies fail and how that failure is shaped. He determined that there ...
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The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind
Portfolio Trade, 2004
Enron growth and fall path inside point-of-view
it is the best and deepest analysis of the giant failure of a Wall Street mammoth, ENRON, the symbol of financial deception.
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Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and ...
Ahmed Rashid
Viking Adult, 2008
Ahmed Rashid the Lion Heart
I am not going to say much about the book apart from telling you that if you are someone who prides him/herself on being well informed and especially if you are from the US, Pakistan, Afghanistan or India then you would be making a huge blunder in not reading this book ...
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Smart Calling: Eliminate the Fear, Failure, and Rejection From Cold Calling
Art Sobczak
Wiley, 2010
Please Don't Buy This - I want to Stay Ahead of the Masses!
Art's Smart Calling volume is a must-have for anyone who has to 'phone out for new business. The advice can also be applied to creating copy. It's brilliant! Art also provides bonuses that are a cut above the average add-ons that get tagged on to self-manangement ...
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How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling
Frank Bettger
Fireside, 1992
One of the most significant books of all
It's taken me over 40 years to have even heard of this marvelous treatise on salesmanship. I just can't believe it!! It is a classic that can only be summed up in the forward to the book by Dale Carnegie, "The most helpful and inspiring book on salesmanship that I have ...
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13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
Simon Johnson, James Kwak
Pantheon, 2010
Carelessness
In March 2009 thirteen bankers needed the government. The banks had a central role in causing the economic crisis, but the country's economic prosperity depended upon them. The large banks are a new oligarchy. Wall Street ideology has been embraced by both political ...
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Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are ...
Joseph T. Hallinan
Broadway, 2010
Great Overview About How Mistaken We Are
I found this book interesting and easy to read. The topics are concise and convincing, and confirm some suspicions I've had about behavior and attitude. I can't help but wonder how many (possibly tragic) mistakes could be avoided if more people would read it!
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Too Big to Fail
VIKING ADULT, 2009
Entertaining read and also a frightening expose
I could not put this book down. It grabs you from the first page. There are countless characters: all egomaniacal, including those who want to do what's "right". Sorkin provides frightening insight into the slap dash manner in which world altering decisions are made by ...
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The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to Fix It
Douglas W. Hubbard
Wiley, 2009
A Caution Everyone Should Heed
Doug Hubbard follows up his smash success on measurement with a penetrating look at why some of the most popular methods of risk assessment not only don't work, but are worse than no analysis at all. He argues convincingly, based on after-the-fact surveys of how ...
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House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
Anchor, 2009
WARNING: This book may cause uninhibited laughter!
David Ellis Dickerson is a man of many talents. One of his talents is writing - evidently anything from greeting cards to memoirs. However, none of his talents seem transferable to the corporate world, as outlined in the hilarious and poignant memoir, //House of ...
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Computer Repair with Diagnostic Flowcharts: Troubleshooting PC Hardware Problems from Boot Failure to Poor ...
Morris Rosenthal
Foner Books, 2008
MUST BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EASY TO UNDERSTAND. I FIXED 2 ISSUES WITHIN 1 WEEK ON MY COMPUTER. BETTER THAN THE OTHER 2 BOOKS I BOUGHT. IT IS A MUST HAVE AT THIS PRICE
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Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead
Robert Brockway
Three Rivers Press, 2010
(But Hopefully Not Soon.)
REM once sang, "It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine." But ask [...] editor and columnist Robert Brockway how he feels about it, and the answer you get might not be so resigned. In //Everything is Going to Kill Everybody//, Brockway takes readers ...
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What to Do When the Power Fails: Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-191 (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin, a-191)
Mary Twitchell
Storey Publishing, LLC, 1999
good book for the basics
Decent book, will help you get started on what to do when power failure is ilmenite.
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