books about: results

books about: results

books:

Results

Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results

Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg

Harvard Business School Press, 2006

Review
I am taking a Health Care Management Strategy class and this book was recommended by our professor. Very well thought and comprehensive book. Some comclusions can be challenged, but the book bringing a new look on Health Care and provide solutions for ...

Small Changes, Big Results: A 12-Week Action Plan to a Better Life

Ellie Krieger, Kelly James-Enger

Three Rivers Press, 2005

Good Looking Receipes
Although I haven't started the healthier eating plan yet, I do know some of the food she prepares on TV look might tastey.

2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews: Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases That Really Get Results

Paul Falcone

AMACOM, 2005

2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews
Excellent tool for assisting managers with written comments on the performance reviews they are required to do on their employees. It especially helps managers with new phrases for employees they have been reviewing for years.

Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers: 50 Exercises That Get Results in Just 15 Minutes

Brian Cole Miller

AMACOM, 2003

Inspiration and Magic
a) This book delivers what it advertises: Quick team building activities. There's a surprising amount of variety and thought behind the book. It's organized and clear. The goals and methods are obvious. b) As with everything in life, the success of the ...

Communicating for Results: A Guide for Business and the Professions

Cheryl Hamilton

Wadsworth Publishing, 2007

smooth transaction, exact product, nice&easy supplier
exact product at an affordable price w a smooth transaction

The Complete TurtleTrader: The Legend, the Lessons, the Results

Michael W. Covel

Collins Business, 2007

Good read
Good book. A lot of traders get caught up in the fundamental garbage, especially when they start out. Focusing on the noise just takes your attention off of what really matters - making money. I can't cant the number of times when a crop report comes out that ...

Results That Last: Hardwiring Behaviors That Will Take Your Company to the Top

Quint Studer

Wiley, 2007

Results-Driven Leadership > Outstanding Organizational Performance
In the Introduction to this book, Quint Studer makes the following assertion: "Standardize the right leadership practices and you will find that organizational performance improves across the board...and stays improved." More specifically, results-driven leadership at ...

Results Now: How We Can Achieve Unprecedented Improvements in Teaching And Learning

Michael J. Schmoker

Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve, 2006

Educators Need This Book Now
This is an excellent book that supports teaching and learning, professional learning communities, power standards and data-driven decision making. If Reeves' and Marzano's work is intriguing, then Schmoker extends it. Every one of the staff in our district is reading ...

SCHOOL LEADERSHIP THAT WORKS: From Research to Results

Robert J. Marzano, Timothy Waters, ...

Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve, 2005

Leadership Behavior to Promote Student Academic Achievement
In this book, Robert Marzano, the most effective force in educational reform today, continues his efforts to promote excellence in schools. Here, he and his colleagues turn their attention to defining school leadership behaviors and actions that raise student ...

Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results

Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, ...

Hyperion, 2000

Fish! for Teambuilding
We used Fish! as a team-building exercise at work. We read about 20 pages a week and then discussed. Even people who don't like to read, enjoyed it because it's such a quick, easy, story. I did get CD's for a few people. This was a group that needed to become ...

Simply Stunning Woven Quilts: 11 Easy Techniques, Great Results

Anna Faustino

C&T Publishing, 2008

Inspiring quilts.
This book is just stunning! I am dying to try some of the woven backgrounds for my next quilted wall hanging. I had ordered the book because it looked so interesting, then I was in my local quilt shop and saw a gorgeous quilt on the wall. When I asked about it I was ...

Writing Essentials: Raising Expectations and Results While Simplifying Teaching

Regie Routman

Heinemann, 2004

Content, NOT conventions!
I purchased this book a few months ago as a textbook requirement for a graduate course I took. Little did I know that I would end up dog-earing practically every page! Regie's approach to teaching writing resounded with me on so many levels. As a kindergarten ...

Secrets of Question Based Selling: How the Most Powerful Tool in Business Can Double Your Sales Results

Thomas Freese

Sourcebooks, Inc., 2000

Great book for novice
I read the book and found it very informative. The system works but is not really for the beginner. I felt the book could have helped more on developing the questions as well as implementation. The book was great that is why I still gave it 5 stars

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Hypothyroidism: A Simple Plan for Extraordinary Results

Ken Blanchard, Marietta Abrams Brill

Grand Central Publishing, 2004

Great Book
If you have hypothyroidism, you have to read this book! I learned more from this than I think my doctor could have ever even TRIED to tell me!

The Oz Principle: Getting Results through Individual and Organizational Accountability

Craig Hickman, Tom Smith, ...

Portfolio Hardcover, 2004

I built a company culture on this book!
I'm now using this book to build a corp. culture for the second time. I buy a copy for every employee. I know they don't all read it. But, we use it as the text for company meetings, training and performance expectations. Big help in getting people to take more ...