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Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems ...
Gary Harpst
Six Disciplines Publishing, 2008
Planning and Execution
+ An excellent pick for anyone looking to make their business venture an enduring success.
+ Holistic Approach Makes This A Winner
+ A Great Book for a Struggling Business Environment
+ The Persistence to Make the Hard Choices
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Awaken the Giant Within : How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial ...
Anthony Robbins
Free Press, 1992
Awaken The Giant Within
+ Worth Your Time?
+ Who can Argue with Success?
I have not finished the book but so far I have liked what I have read. He is funny, personnable, and yet he has a meaning behind the words of the book. He writes so you understand just what he is saying just like you were talking to him face to face.
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, ...
Crown Business, 2002
A "Must Read" for Executives
+ Obviously if you're going to get things done, you gotta "execute" them...
+ Muy buen libro
+ developing strategies that work
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The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
Michael Watkins
Harvard Business School Press, 2003
Great Primer for Taking On a Management Job
+ Well Written
+ Good Overview and Framework
+ Indispensable reference book
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Leadership and Self Deception: Getting Out of the Box
The Arbinger Institute
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2002
Go Beyond
+ The next generation
+ Leadership and Self-deception
+ Wonderfully thought provoking
+ Quick easy read which is unusual for this type of material. Profound
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Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat (Agora Series)
Michael Masterson
Wiley, 2008
One of the Best Entrepreneurship Books I've Ever Read
+ Grow Your Business without Delay
+ Motivational manual on entrepreneurial excellence
Frankly, I am baffled that anyone could write a negative review of this book. Have those people actually read it?
I am real-life entrepreneur with the real-life challenge of taking a business from nothing (when I started) to something great. Michael Masterson appealed to me for one very simple ...
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Now, Discover Your Strengths
Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton
Free Press, 2001
Management tool
+ Very inspiring book
+ A Look in the Mirror
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 "this is good and that is bad" ...
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The One Page Business Plan: Start With a Vision, Build a Company!
James T., Jr. Horan
One Page Business Plan Company, 1998
Excellent way to focus
+ Easy to Use and Thorough
+ Simple and does the job
+ A Wonderful Guideline
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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!
+ Wow! This book will help you get there!
+ Stepping on Toes!
+ Good for anyone who wants to improve their interpersonal relationship and leadership skill
+ A great tool for personal reflection and discovering your blindspots
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The World Is Flat (The Globalized World In The Twenty-First Century)
Thomas L. Friedman
Penguin Books, 2006
Your Guide to Capitalism in the 21st Century
+ Not the easiest read, but an eye-opener
+ Read it or weep!
+ one of the best for human philosophy, value system we live.
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First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
Curt Coffman
Simon & Schuster Audio, 1999
I did, and it works!
+ It's not really about breaking any rules, but it's a good reading
+ Best book ever about leadership!
+ First Break All The Rules
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The 4-Hour work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Timothy Ferris
Blackstone Audio Inc., 2007
We did it!
+ Subversive
+ The Whole Package!
+ Great Book, Well Worth Reading
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Business Plans that Work
Jeffry A Timmons, Andrew Zacharakis, ...
McGraw-Hill, 2004
Best small book on step-by-step Business Plans
This small book does a splendid job in explaining the business planning process more simple and uncomplicated than most books on business planning that often are too comprehensive and detailed - sometimes probably creating "paralysis by analysis" for the users.
The approach is a practical ...
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Jim Collins
Collins Business, 2001
Worth for its price
+ A good look at what companies can do to manage talent
+ Good to Great
+ Good to Great review
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Random House, 2007
If you could make yourself significantly more powerful by reading 336 pages, wouldn't you?
+ A great read for leaders who need to sell ideas - an excellent read for anyone in the agency business
+ A good book for both marketing newcomers and seasoned professionals
+ Made to Stick
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