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Now, Discover Your Strengths
Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton
Free Press, 2001
Management tool
+ A Look in the Mirror
+ The good and the bad
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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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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Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Yvon Chouinard
Penguin Press HC, The, 2005
A fun, unique, and compelling biz book
+ The Ultimate Company to work for
+ best business book in years
+ Why can't we all......
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002
Absolutely phenomenal ways of managing yourself
+ This Book can Change Your Level of Productivity and Stress
+ Great Book! Even for the Over-Organizers!!
Management begins with self! Start managing yourself and you would be able to manage everyone and everything around you. But there are times when you have lots of things to do and you are left with no choice but to get more and more confused.
The best ways I thought to manage everything starting ...
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Little Red Book of Sales Answers: 99.5 Real World Answers That Make Sense, Make Sales, and Make Money ...
Jeffrey Gitomer
FT Press, 2006
A Simple & Systematic book
+ Now i know it all about Sales!
+ Excellent Book.... [...]
+ All Hail Gitomer
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Stop Telling, Start Selling: How to Use Customer-Focused Dialogue to Close Sales
Linda Richardson
McGraw-Hill, 1998
Great advice (if you can assimilate it)
+ excellent, customer oriented common sense
+ should be a textbook for sales classes
+ Eye-opener and Instant Results Obtained
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Winning
Jack Welch, Suzy Welch
Collins Business, 2005
Management teextbook
+ "Calling it like it is"
+ High on the "Stories from Utopia" bookshelf
+ Clarifying Business
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On Bullshit
Harry G. Frankfurt
Princeton University Press, 2005
Thin and Expensive but interesting
+ Reference guide to business ethics
+ Two Key Points -- No BS
It is a quick and interesting read. The book isn't only insightful, but I also like the writing style. Yes, we are surrounded with BS, and I agree with the author that BS is probably bigger enemy of the truth than outright lies. At the same time, BS is so prevalent in our society nowadays that it ...
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The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002
In my top ten of favorite books
+ Simple, reasonable lessons for life
+ The Possibility in Others makes for a Great Product
+ Not the usual self help.
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Think and Grow Rich!: The Original Version, Restored and Revised
Napoleon Hill
Aventine Press, 2004
The Original Version, Restored, and Revised
+ Great, Great Book!
I have read several different publishings of Think and Grow Rich, and I am happy to say it was nice to discover this particular copy. You may not know, but in 1960 Napoleon Hill did a rewrite of his manuscript and the results left much of the original text deleted. Here, in this production, we have ...
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
Back Bay Books, 2007
Fascinating book
+ Great book even if I don't agree with it...
+ Intuition is No Simple Subject Matter to "Thin-Slice" - Gladwell does it Well!
+ Blink - A Must Read
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Rich Dad Poor Dad for Teens: The Secrets About Money--That You Don't Learn in School! (Rich Dad Poor Dad)
Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter
Little, Brown Young Readers, 2004
Excellent -- Would Highly Recommed!
+ Better than the Usual Run of Teen Self Help Books
+ Gets Kids Thinking About Themselves
+ Great Book, but nothing too profound...
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Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life
Larry Winget
Wiley, 2005
A TRUE KICK BUTT APPROACH
+ Nothing works till you do
I enjoyed this book. You must be really objective to appreciate this. If you are willing to make the suggesred efforts to change your life, it will truly pay off. I feel that this approach to life is better than whining, complaining and blaming others for what is wrong with your life. I'm sure ...
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Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness
Jeffrey Gitomer, 2004
Little Red Book Review
+ Good Sales Insight
+ One great sales tool
This book is well written! I love it! I'd read anything from this author. The illustrations make the book easy and fun to read.
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The E-Code: 33 Internet Superstars Reveal 43 Ways to Make Money Online Almost Instantly---Using Only Email
Joe Vitale, Jo Han Mok
Wiley, 2005
Don't knock it , til you've tried it!
+ You Won't Go Wrong Reading This One
+ Never heard of at school
Hold on to that yellow highliter! This collection of author marketing ideas for making money online is useful and varied in it's methods to really start puting email, ezines, online marketing, etc. to work. With hands on written templates and links by the dozens, there's no excuse not to try a ...
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