books about: management     books:     Management      The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 11th Edition Graduate Management Admission Council, 2005 Great study tool! This is such a great study tool. The questions and answers are GREAT! The answers walk you through each question in detail, as well. Purchase this book before you pay for the GMAT Prep Class!             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 ...             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 ...             YOU: The Owner's Manual, Updated and Expanded Edition: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You ... Mehmet Oz, Michael F. Roizen Collins, 2008 Simple, informative and not dumbed down I am really impressed with this book. I've been looking to start making positive changes in my lifestyle to ensure that as I age I can delay health problems that come with it as long as possible. I never like hearing what I should be doing and instead want to ...             What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter Hyperion, 2007 Marshall Goldsmith Marshall Goldsmith is a masterful leader, abundant in sharing his life experiences and lessons in leadership. His quirky sense of humor comes out in the book with a myriad of examples on how to apply the principles he espouses. It's a fast, fun read for all business ...             The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich Timothy Ferriss Crown, 2007 This book is awesome! This book helped me to identify where I really want to be and how I was actually spending my time. It helped me to look at what I have always thought were things I had to have to be in business; cell phone, email, instantly jumping to take care of a customer. What I ...             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 ...             A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Third Edition (PMBOK Guides) Project Management Institute Project Management Institute, 2004 This is the bible A lot of people would say that the book does not has flow and is not easy to understand etc ............... but so is project management profession to most of the people, even though they believe they do. People say it not practical, but many are the challenges in ...             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 ...             Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity David Allen Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002 Getting Things Done I thought this was going to be another one of those self help type books that had a lot of good thoughts but nothing practical in it. This book is quite the opposite. In the first few chapters, you are already able to apply some simple principles and get yourself ...             Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life Spencer Johnson G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1998 Excellent Lessons to Learn This is simply the most powerful little book you'll ever read. It's simple to read and understand, and its messages are helpful to people of all ages. Anyone who doesn't like this book probably prefers being a victim that is stuck in life, anyway.             The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century Thomas L. Friedman Picador, 2007 Despite of the weaknesses of this book, it still offers many point of view in enhancing our global perspective Like it or not, this book has helped dilate our global perspective. I personally say "YES" to many of his thoughts in this book. Though it sounds too idealistic, demographically, I still agree that one day, the environmental health threats of "megacity" due to the ...             Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story David Einhorn Wiley, 2008 An important work It would suffice that this book is well-written, engaging and informative, but it is more than that. It is an important book, for two reasons. First, it shows how much of an investment edge it can be to employ deep research and critical thought. The fact that many ...             The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures Dan Roam Portfolio Hardcover, 2008 You can tell your story more compellingly using simple drawings Most business books fall into a few broad categories, and though this one might be lumped in the category of how to do presentations, it is really much cooler than that. I guess I find it so cool because I can't really draw a straight line with a ruler. My kids are ...             Now, Discover Your Strengths Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton Free Press, 2001 A Baseline Tool to Personal Development - Now Discover Your Strengths An excellent leadership tool for personal development - The online evaluation allows you to identify your five top strengths. I found this to be a great tool to establish a baseline of strengths for personal management. I still use it today - five stars. I highly ...          products you might be interested in search for books improbable, productivity, strengthsfinder, stress-free, successful, twenty-first randomly chosen book: The Music Business (Explained In Plain English): What Every Artist And ...