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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, ...
Crown Business, 2002
The Discipline - Not the Art
This book does a great job of helping a leader see the importance of staying disciplined enough to stay in the game, particularly with his or her people. I recommend this book for all organizational leaders - regardless of the position on the ladder.
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Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning
Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
Excelent
It one of the most interesting book that I have read, it show you the future tendent
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Making a Good Brain Great: The Amen Clinic Program for Achieving and Sustaining Optimal Mental Performance
Daniel G. Md Amen
Three Rivers Press, 2006
Provides sound information
What I enjoy about this product is it is on CD. This allows me to listen to the information in my car while driving. It's nice to have options of books or CD for those of us that are constantly on the go and over worked with our eyes reading.
Thanks for offering ...
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Men's Health Power Training: Build Bigger, Stronger Muscles with through Performance-based Conditioning
Robert dos Remedios
Rodale Books, 2007
Power book!
Excellent book!
I have lifted on and off for over 30 years, and this book provides great exercises that are efficient in terms of time for the overall impact. Core exercises are central to this book and after a few times really make you feel good when you do them.
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Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance
Marcus Buckingham
Free Press, 2007
Excel at your strengths
A continuation of the 'strengths finder' series, 'Go Put Your Strengths to Work' is a good addition to the bookshelf, albeit the lessons could have been presented more concisely.
The core message is that the process of building on your strengths is independent of ...
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The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
Free Press, 2004
You have the power, now use it effectively!
Having read other related books/articles by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz, they've become trusted advisors for those looking to be more productive. This work helps executives develop their own strategies for maintaining peak levels of their mental and creative ...
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The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
W. Timothy Gallwey
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 1997
This book is a must read for every amateur and professional tennis player and tennis teacher
Does it matter how and what we think about while we are playing tennis ? Yes, it matters so much that it affects our tennis performance significantly and could even affect our mental well being. W. Timothy Gallwey obviously understands both tennis and psychology very ...
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The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
Josh Waitzkin
Free Press, 2008
I always wondered...
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...what happened to the kid from `Bobby Fischer', now I know.
This is nice mix of self-help learning techniques and autobiography. I liked it.
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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
Identifying Talents: Not "Become Anything that You Want to Be"
We have all heard the adage that, if you work hard enough, you can become anything you want to be. Rath challenges this. We all have different strengths, and very seldom is someone very successful in something that is not his/her strength. Don't follow the path of ...
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Atul Gawande
Picador, 2008
"When the stakes are our lives...we want no one to settle for average."
Atul Gawande, in "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance," asks, "What does it take to be good at something in which failure is so easy?" When someone's well-being is at stake, is mere competence enough? The author maintains that a great deal more is needed "to ...
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Core Performance Golf: The Revolutionary Training and Nutrition Program for Success On and Off the Course
Mark Verstegen, Pete Williams
Rodale Books, 2008
Great Book for Golf, which you can apply to entire lifestyle
I am a 24 year old former collegiate golfer, and this book is probably one of the best I have read for golf specific training. The exercises are described well and the workouts are easy to follow. There is also a nutrition section which talks about how to be ...
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Effective Phrases For Performance Appraisals: A Guide to Successful Evaluations (Neal, Effective Phrases for ...
James E. Neal
Neal Publications, 2006
Excellent Management Tool
I have an older edition (early 80's) that I have used for years to write my own personal self-evaluations and development plans. I used it last year for my staff and shared with my fellow managers, who loved it. This year I checked to see if it was still in print and ...
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The Physics of NASCAR: How to Make Steel + Gas + Rubber = Speed
Diandra Leslie-Pelecky
Dutton Adult, 2008
The Racing of Automobiles - From Inside Out
I'm not a NASCAR fan by any stretch of the imagination. But this book's title intrigued me. Browsing through it and seeing all the interesting diagrams convinced me that I should buy it and read it. I did and I was not disappointed. The author, a physicist, is a gifted ...
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Total Control: High Performance Street Riding Techniques
Lee Parks
Motorbooks, 2003
for serious sportbike riders and future track stars
Purchased the book for my son whose passion is riding his sportbike on the track and hopefully race in the future. Read portions of the book myself and I have to recommend it to all who are sportbike aficionados. The book is to the point - dead center. Gives great ...
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Talent Is Never Enough: Discover the Choices That Will Take You Beyond Your Talent
John C. Maxwell
Thomas Nelson, 2007
Book for maximizing your Ability and Opportunity for Success
Globalization is quickening and will continue to have an increasing impact on your professional career. With globalization there will never be a shortage of Talent. Having the best talents and proven capabilities is not enough anymore. As the author puts it, we need ...
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