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Powerful Conversations: How High Impact Leaders Communicate
Phil Harkins
McGraw-Hill, 1999
A Must-Read for High Impact Leaders
As a coach, consultant and author (Strategic Interviewing: Skills and Tactics for Savvy Executives I have read many books about communication. I have to admit this one goes right to the top. It provides an excellent model for powerful conversations that are based on ...
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The Consultant's Toolkit: High-Impact Questionnaires, Activities and How-to Guides for Diagnosing and Solving ...
Mel Silberman
McGraw-Hill, 2000
Valuable Book
This is a wonderful book that combines the expertise of a wide range of experts in the consulting field. Due to the different styles of the authors, the reader is bound to find several that really address their concerns.
The book is a useful toolkit as it has ...
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The McGraw-Hill Guide to Writing a High-Impact Business Plan: A Proven Blueprint for First-Time Entrepreneurs
James B. Arkebauer
McGraw-Hill, 1994
Highly Recommended
A very consise and well written guide. An excellent reference to have at your side while writing a business plan. I find it extremely useful. My only complaint is on the poor graphics in the book, especially since the author repeatedly stresses the importance of ...
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The Nia Technique: The High-Powered Energizing Workout that Gives You a New Body and a New Life
Debbie Rosas, Carlos Rosas
Broadway, 2005
A Revolutionary and Pleasurable Dance Through Life
A friend discovered The NIA Technique (neuromuscular integrative action) while researching something to help her cope with difficult health problems. After the first class, we were sold on NIA with it's non-impact, yet aerobic, fluid dance, martial arts and healing ...
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High-Impact Interview Questions: 701 Behavior-Based Questions to Find the Right Person for Every Job
Victoria A. Hoevemeyer
AMACOM, 2005
Not Only Great for the Interviewer but also for the Interviewee
This book is easy to pick up and understand what behavioral interviewing is all about. For someone that is at the other end of the interview process (the interviewee) this book helped to better prepare me for the interview process in this day and age. Interviews no ...
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The Conflict and Communication Activity Book: 30 High-Impact Training Exercises for Adult Learners
Bill Withers, Keami D. Lewis
AMACOM, 2003
Training and OD Professionals: Get This One!!
The "Conflict and Communication Activity Book" is an excellent resource for trainers and facilitators in any organization. I particularly liked how Withers and Lewis formatted the book, defining up front the purpose as well as the equipment, prep and time needed for ...
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Severe & Hazardous Weather: An Introduction to High Impact Meteorology
Robert M. Rauber, John E. Walsh, ...
Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 2005
The best hazardous weather textbook available (Spring 2008).
As an earth and atmospheric science professor who specializes in natural hazards, I've seen probably every text available on this subject. For atmospheric hazards in particular, this is the best textbook I've used. It is easily accessible to second year meteorology ...
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Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
Michael Eric Dyson
Basic Civitas Books, 2007
A compelling and descriptive audio about Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath
Here is a compelling and descriptive audio about Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath. Professor Michael Eric Dyson points out that the majority of the people most affected were black and poor, and sees the problem as more than just a simple emergency response failure. ...
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Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
Charles Perrow
Princeton University Press, 1999
This book will change the way you think.
This book will change the way you think. It's as simple as that. Really eye-opening and persuasive arguments and examples as to why the absence of accidents per se is not an adequate indicator of a system's safety. Near-accidents are a better metric. Fascinating!
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Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits
Leslie Crutchfield, Heather McLeod Grant
Jossey-Bass, 2007
Twelve High-Impact "Starfish"
After completing five years of rigorous and extensive research on 1,435 "Fortune 500" companies during a 30-year period (1965-1995), Jim Collins and his associates selected only eleven that met their admittedly "very tough standards" for greatness. (Note: Collins ...
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Exhibit Design: High Impact Solutions
Bridget Vranckx
Collins Design, 2007
An idea book on top of the line exhibits
Exhibit designers have several interesting problems. In many cases the exhibit must be mobil. It travels from trade show to trade show around the country, even around the world. Then it needs to be set up, quite possibly by people who have never seen it before, and at ...
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High Impact Tools and Activities for Strategic Planning: Creative Techniques for Facilitating Your ...
Rod Napier, Clint Sidle, ...
McGraw-Hill, 1997
Invaluable tools for Organizational Planning
I have had the opportunity to use the designs in this book over the past year. The designs or "strategic activities" are creative and guarnateed to advance the planning process for a wide range of organizations. The instructions have just the right amount of detail to ...
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High Performance Nonprofit Organizations: Managing Upstream for Greater Impact
Christine W. Letts, William P. Ryan, ...
Wiley, 1998
Best rendition of barriers of high performance in nonprofits
This is the best treatment I've seen of the barriers nonprofit leaders have in implementing high performance strategies in a nonprofit organization. The authors rightly point to the convergence of the bias of funders and nonprofit leaders to only invest in programs ...
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194 High-Impact Letters for Busy Principals: A Guide to Handling Difficult Correspondence
Marilyn L. Grady
Corwin Press, 2006
"Grady?s book encourages principals who are perpetually pressed for time to get to correspondence that languishes at the bottom of their to-do lists. My own correspondence has doubled since getting my hands on this book!" -Cathie West, Principal Mountain Way Elementary School, Granite Falls, WA "The letters cover a wide variety of topics and ...
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Net Words: Creating High-Impact Online Copy
Nick Usborne
McGraw-Hill, 2002
A "must have" for anybody who does Online Copy writing
The book is very compact and well written. Nick Usborne wrote this book based on his own experiences as online copywriter. You can tell, because he provides a lot of examples of issues that are exclusively Web related and also about differences between copy writing for ...
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