books about: leadership     books:     Leadership      The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable Patrick M. Lencioni Jossey-Bass, 2002 The best book on teamwork This was a great book, an easy read that was packed with information and suspense. After reading the fictional part of the book, I found the in depth descriptions of each dysfunction at the end of the book very important and informative. Also what makes this book so ...             StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths Tom Rath Gallup Press, 2007 Great Tool! Highly Recommend... We loved the concept behind this book (and its Christian companion, "Living Your Strengths"). Our church staff took the (included with book) online StengthsFinder assessment and all found it very accurate and helpful in providing insights on what drives our fellow ...             The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey Free Press, 2004 It's all in the habit! Habits! Yes, consistent, belief-based, and optimized habits are the only way to be your best self. Thoughts are the parents of our experience and performance. This guy will guide you to it. You will also learn how to optimize these habits with Rosalene Glickman's ...             Now, Discover Your Strengths Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton Free Press, 2001 Management tool Probably the best management and personnel development tool around! Four staff members were each given a copy to read and to follow the instructions for getting an analysis. Each was asked to bring the analysis for their annual job review. They expected the typical ...             Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter Business Plus, 2000 Rich in other ways too! When I first purchased this book, it was for the simple purpose of trying to educate myself more on the concepts of how the millionaires create their success. While I was not disappointed in any way with the context, what surprised me was that many of the fundamentals ...             The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Malcolm Gladwell Back Bay Books, 2002 Must read book Macolm Gladwell's approach in this book is that of an observer. His deductions are thoroughly logical and offer a refreshing alternative to traditional thought. This book was a joy to read. I am also half way through his second book entitled Blink. As an author he ...             Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man Dalton Fury St. Martin's Press, 2008 An exceptional, superb, first hand account by the team leader of US Army Special Forces Detachment Delta It is rare that readers are provided a first hand, accurate, contemporary, non politically constrained account of a major special operation by US Army Special Forces Detachment Delta. Many organizations claim the title, "special operations;" it takes more than a ...             The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality Jerome R. Corsi Threshold Editions, 2008 Finally the Truth is getting past the Biased media ... This is a fantastic read and documents Obama's past. A must read for anyone who is looking for facts, not media biased coverage, of Obama. The references are clear and consise, allowing the reader to know where the information came from and frankly helps underscore ...             Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't Jim Collins Collins Business, 2001 Worth for its price I don't need much to write here as hundreds of people has written review for this book. In simple terms the book is easy to read & understand. Analyze how best companies manage to retain their position by innovative & intelligent leadership. Research is sound & ...             A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future Daniel H. Pink Riverhead Trade, 2006 A whole new way to see the world A Whole New Mind is written for those who are looking to increase their abilities and engage their brain. The book offers a holistic approach to changing your life and changing how you see the world and approach problems. Pink makes the argument that we all need to ...             Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Doris Kearns Goodwin Simon & Schuster, 2006 Excellent Biography It is simple and easy to follow language. Life of Lincoln is excellently portrayed in a chronology of events.             What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter Hyperion, 2007 The Future of Tommorow - Highly Recommended! Marshall Goldsmith illustrates the concept of focusing the mind on positive ways of thinking. He has provided "20 annoying habits". He has written how they need to be "eliminated"; until your thoughts have been clearly defined. As a reader, I can relate to most of ...             Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise Three Rivers Press, 2008 informative i like this book. it is clearly written. it doesn't include lots of hesitancy that's found in soooo many books written by attorneys!!! this book very clearly describes senator obama's positions on so many issues. it's not, of course, absolutely comprehensive, but, ...             A Sense of Urgency John P. Kotter Harvard Business School Press, 2008 Develop a sense of urgency around buying this book Once again, Harvard guru Kotter addresses the issue of change in organizations. He suggests that we are made to change, but still defend against it with all our being. It is this defense, or resistance to change, that cause most organizational change initiatives to ...             How to Win Friends & Influence People Dale Carnegie Pocket, 1998 How to Win Friends and Influence People: review by Jon Gillespie-Brown, Author "So you want to be an entrepreneur" How reading a single book can change your life! It's true, when I was 16 years old I (like many others I have now found out since then) read my first book about business. I was drawn to it in a small, old fashioned book shop that's no longer in business. At the time ...          products you might be interested in search for books difference, dysfunctions, personality, right-brainers, strengthsfinder, successful      toavi.com    web we recommend Rich in other ways too! randomly chosen book: High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers