ISBN-10: 0230014127
ISBN-13: 978-0230014121

by John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber

Description
 

Our Iceberg Is Melting is a simple fable about doing well in an ever-changing world. Based on the award-winning work of Harvard's John Kotter, it is a story that has been used to help thousands of people and organizations.

The fable is about a penguin colony in Antarctica. A group of beautiful emperor penguins live as they have for many years. Then one curious bird discovers a potentially devastating problem threatening their home and pretty much no one listens to him.

The characters in the story, Fred, Alice, Louis, Buddy, the Professor, and NoNo, are like people we recognize — even ourselves. Their tale is one of resistance to change and heroic action, seemingly intractable obstacles and the most clever tactics for dealing with those obstacles. It's a story that is occurring in different forms all around us today — but the penguins handle the very real challenges a great deal better than most of us.

ISBN-10: 1401301304
ISBN-13: 978-1401301309

by Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter

Description
 

What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There is dedicated to all successful leaders who want to “take it to the next level” and get even better.

Next, he masterfully walks the reader through the twenty-one habits that hold you back from making it to the top.

What Got You Here Won't Get You There is unique in that the author not only explains what we must do better, more of, and improve upoon – but he also explains the importance of consciously NOT doing certain things, which get in the way of our success.

Some of these “not to do’s” include: Winning too much; Adding too much value; Passing Judgment; Making destructive comments; Starting with “No,” “But,” or “However”; Telling the world how smart we are; Speaking when angry; Withholding information; Making Excuses, Not Listening; Refusing to express reqret, and Exhibiting an excessive need to be “me” – and several more.

Goldsmith goes on to make the key point that what got you here, to your current position in life, cannot be counted on to take you to the next level of success.

ISBN-10: 072253034X

ISBN-13: 978-0722530344

by Jinny Ditzler

Description
 

A self-help and personal development book. Based on a goal-setting programme used by thousands of people, the key is a set of ten questions which provide the impetus to self-knowledge and change.

Rarely do we stop and think about what we’ve achieved in a day, let alone a year. It leads you in a positive direction and gives you the chance to re-balance your perception of yourself and what you’ve achieved in the past year. Almost without exception, people’s initial thoughts about the past are negative.

ISBN-10: 1577314808
ISBN-13: 978-1577314806

by Eckhart Tolle

Description
 

Ekhart Tolle's message is simple: living in the now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. And while this message may not seem stunningly original or fresh, Tolle's clear writing, supportive voice, and enthusiasm make this an excellent manual for anyone who's ever wondered what exactly "living in the now" means.

Foremost, Tolle is a world-class teacher, able to explain complicated concepts in concrete language. More importantly, within a chapter of reading this book, readers are already holding the world in a different container--more conscious of how thoughts and emotions get in the way of their ability to live in genuine peace and happiness.

ISBN-10: 0671023373
ISBN-13: 978-0671023379

by Viktor E. Frankl

Description
 

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. The book begins with a lengthy, austere, and deeply moving personal essay about Frankl's imprisonment in Auschwitz and other concentration camps for five years, and his struggle during this time to find reasons to live.

The second part of the book, called "Logotherapy in a Nutshell," describes the psychotherapeutic method that Frankl pioneered as a result of his experiences in the concentration camps.

ISBN-10: 0340770643
ISBN-13: 978-0340770641

by Fiona Harrold

Description
 

In this highly motivating new book, Fiona Harrold uses her experience as a life coach to show us that we can turn our own lives around. With encouragement, humour, and an emphasis on the practical, Fiona sets out the 10 steps to taking control of our lives.

We must set our goals, however crazy they may seem, and then start on the path to achieving them. Along the way, Fiona uses case studies, affirmations, and motivational techniques to guide and coach her readers.

Although she advises that acceptance of the existence of a cosmic force outside yourself will enhance your sense of personal worth, she has controversial thoughts about the central tenets of some religions. You should, she suggests, rethink your relationship with any teaching which requires you to regard yourself as a worthless miserable sinner. She blames such deeply conditioned cultural attitudes for much of the low self-esteem in Western Europe.
 

January 2008

ISBN-10: 0375410120
ISBN-13: 978-0375410123
 

by Marcia Wieder

Description

In all areas of my life I'm living a life I love. This book will show you how to do the same for yourself," writes author Marcia Wieder (Life Is but a Dream and Doing Less and Having More). Wieder offers a step-by-step process for making your dreams come true. The basic formula is simple, even obvious: "

• Get clear about what your dream is

• Remove the obstacles, especially the limiting beliefs

• Design the simple steps to make your dreams happen

But Weider uses the formula as a starting place. She offers practical strategies and exercises to put you in charge of your dreams and making them come true.

December 2007

Law of Attraction
by Michael J. Losier

Description

The Science of Attracting More of What You Want and Less of What You Don't .

You may not be aware of it, but a very powerful force is at work in your life.
It's called the Law of Attraction and right now it is attracting people, jobs, situations and relationships in your life - not all of them good!

If your life feels as if it has turned south and taken on the characteristics of a bad soap opera, it's time to pick up this book.
 

The Secret
by Rhonda Byrne

Description

Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it.

In this book, you'll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life -- money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You'll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that's within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life.


The Secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers -- men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible.

 

How to See Yourself As You Really Are
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (Author), Jeffrey, Ph.D. Hopkins (Author)

Description

Like the two wings of a bird, love and insight work cooperatively to bring about enlightenment, says a fundamental Buddhist teaching. According to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, we each possess the ability to achieve happiness and a meaningful life, but the key to realizing that goal is self-knowledge. In How to See Yourself As You Really Are, the world's foremost Buddhist leader and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize shows readers how to recognize and dispel misguided notions of self and embrace the world from a more realistic -- and loving -- perspective.

Step-by-step exercises help readers shatter their false assumptions and ideas and see the world as it actually exists. By directing our attention to the false veneer that so bedazzles our senses and our thoughts, His Holiness sets the stage for discovering the reality behind appearances. But getting past one's misconceptions is only a prelude to right action, and the book's final section describes how to harness the power of meditative concentration to the service of love, and vice versa, so that true altruistic enlightenment is attained.


Enlivened by personal anecdotes and intimate accounts of the Dalai Lama's own life experiences, How to See Yourself As You Really Are is an inspirational and empowering guide to achieving self-awareness that can be read and enjoyed by spiritual seekers of all faiths.

The Art of Innovation
by Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman - Foreword by Tom Peters

Description

There isn't a business that doesn't want to be more creative in its thinking, products and processes in The Art of Innovation, Tom Kelley, general manager of the Silicon Valley-based firm IDEO, developer of hundreds of innovative products including the palm hand-held, takes readers behind the scenes of this wildly imaginative company to reveal the strategies and secrets it uses to turn out hit after hit.

Kelley Shows How Teams:

• research and immerse themselves in every possible aspect of a new product or service

• examine each product from the perspective of clients, consumers and other critical audiences

The Art of Innovation will provide business leaders with the insights and tools they need to make their companies the leading-edge top-rated stars of their industries.
 

The Witch of Portobello
A Novel by Paulo Coelho

Description

Paulo Coelho, one of the world's best loved storytellers, is back with a riveting new novel set in London. This is the story of Athena, or Sherine, to give her the name she was baptised with. Her life is pieced together through a series of recorded interviews with those people who knew her well or hardly at all -- parents, colleagues, teachers, friends, acquaintances, her ex-husband. The novel unravels Athena's mysterious beginnings, via an orphanage in Romania, to a childhood in Beirut. When war breaks out, her adoptive family move with her to London, where a dramatic turn of events occurs! Athena, who has been dubbed 'the Witch of Portobello' for her seeming powers of prophecy, disappears dramatically, leaving those who knew her to solve the mystery of her life and abrupt departure. This gripping new novel is filled with the themes Paulo fans know and love: spirituality, relationships, destiny, freedom.
 

Now, Discover Your Strengths
by Marcus Buckingham (Author), Donald O. Clifton (Author)

Editorial Review - Amazon.com's Best of 2001

Effectively managing personnel--as well as one's own behavior--is an extraordinarily complex task that, not surprisingly, has been the subject of countless books touting what each claims is the true path to success. That said, Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton's Now, Discover Your Strengths does indeed propose a unique approach: focusing on enhancing people's strengths rather than eliminating their weaknesses. Following up on the coauthors' popular previous book, First, Break All the Rules, it fully describes 34 positive personality themes the two have formulated (such as Achiever, Developer, Learner, and Maximizer) and explains how to build a "strengths-based organization" by capitalizing on the fact that such traits are already present among those within it.

Most original and potentially most revealing, however, is a Web-based interactive component that allows readers to complete a questionnaire developed by the Gallup Organization and instantly discover their own top-five inborn talents. This device provides a personalized window into the authors' management philosophy which, coupled with subsequent advice, places their suggestions into the kind of practical context that's missing from most similar tomes. "You can't lead a strengths revolution if you don't know how to find, name and develop your own," write Buckingham and Clifton. Their book encourages such introspection while providing knowledgeable guidance for applying its lessons. --Howard Rothman
 

ISBN-10: 0449905292
ISBN-13:978-0449905296

Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World
by Dudley Lynch

Book Description

You Don't Have To Be A Shark To Be A Success In Business

Although you don't think of yourself as a shark in business, you are smart, ambitious, and want to succeed. With the challenge of the Information Age looming large on the horizon, your adaptability to change, your search for the elegant solution to every kind of problem, your desire to work with the system and with others toward a common end, defines and shapes your perspective. You don't need the killer instinct. Your talents, your coping skills, your intelligence will help you succeed in the changing world of tomorrow.

Your dolphin personality -- flexible, responsive, accepting -- represents precisely the attitude that successful managers must adopt. In Strategy of the Dolphin, the authors, innovative business experts, demonstrate that everyone will need to be a dolphin to survive the changes the future will bring. They speak directly to your needs, to your management style, reminding you that your way is perfect for your temperament and goals.

Strategy of the Dolphin will enable you to develop your creativity, break through obsolete thinking, and act upon your own compelling visions. Of course dolphins like to win, but they know that others don't have to lose at their expense.

A vital book that will take you into tomorrow today, Strategy of the Dolphin is a stimulating blueprint for success that resourceful and self-aware people can use in their continuing search for excellence.

ISBN-10: 0743289803
ISBN-13:978-0743289801

The Hidden Messages in Water
by Masaru Emoto, David A. Thayne (Translator)


Book Description

This book has the potential to profoundly transform your world view. Using high-speed photography, Dr. Masaru Emoto discovered that crystals formed in frozen water reveal changes when specific, concentrated thoughts are directed toward them. He found that water from clear springs and water that has been exposed to loving words shows brilliant, complex, and colorful snowflake patterns. In contrast, polluted water, or water exposed to negative thoughts, forms incomplete, asymmetrical patterns with dull colors. The implications of this research create a new awareness of how we can positively impact the earth and our personal health.
 

ISBN-10: 0060781882
ISBN-13: 978-0060781880

Executive Intelligence
by Justin Menkes


Book Description

Inspired by the work of Peter Drucker and Jim Collins, Justin Menkes set out to isolate the qualities that make for the best leaders. Drawing on his background in psychology and bolstering it with interviews with accomplished CEOs such as John Hammergren of McKesson, Thomas Ebeling of Novartis, Rick Lenny of Hershey Foods, and others, Menkes paints the portrait of the ideal executive.


His work reveals an executive IQ—the cognitive skills necessary in order to excel in senior management positions, from recognizing the needs of shareholders to challenging flawed assumptions. With extensive research, Menkes identifies these key qualities that every executive needs to succeed.
 

ISBN: 1844135608

Rumi's Daughter
by Muriel Maufroy

Book Description
Rumi is now acknowledged as one of the great mystical poets of the Western world, with huge sales of the many collections of his poetry. Not much is known about his life except that he lived in thirteenth-century Anatolia (now Turkey), had a great spiritual friendship with a wild man called Shams, brought an adopted daughter into his family, and was distraught when Shams finally disappeared.

Rumi's Daughter is the delightful novel about Kimya, the girl who was sent from her rural village to live in Rumi's home. She already had mystical tendencies, and learned a great deal under Rumi's tutelage. Eventually she married Shams, a strange man who was an unusual husband, almost totally absorbed by his longings for God. Their marriage was fiery and different and, in the end, dissolved by Kimya's death - after which Shams vanished.

Rumi's Daughter tells Kimya's story with great charm and tenderness. Well written and thought-provoking, it is sure to draw comparison with Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, and also to add something fresh and new to what is so far known about Rumi.

 

ISBN: 0887307396

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras

Book Description
Built to Last identifies 18 "visionary" companies and sets out to determine what's special about them. To get on the list, a company had to be world famous, have a stellar brand image, and be at least 50 years old. We're talking about companies that even a layperson knows to be, well, different: the Disneys, the Wal-Marts, the Mercks.

Whatever the key to the success of these companies, the key to the success of this book is that the authors don't waste time comparing them to business failures. Instead, they use a control group of "successful-but-second-rank" companies to highlight what's special about their 18 "visionary" picks. Thus Disney is compared to Columbia Pictures, Ford to GM, Hewlett Packard to Texas Instruments, and so on.

The core myth, according to the authors, is that visionary companies must start with a great product and be pushed into the future by charismatic leaders. There are examples of that pattern, they admit: Johnson & Johnson, for one. But there are also just too many counterexamples--in fact, the majority of the "visionary" companies, including giants like 3M, Sony, and TI, don't fit the model. They were characterized by total lack of an initial business plan or key idea and by remarkably self-effacing leaders. Collins and Porras are much more impressed with something else they shared: an almost cult-like devotion to a "core ideology" or identity, and active indoctrination of employees into "ideologically commitment" to the company.

The comparison with the business "B"-team does tend to raise a significant methodological problem: which companies are to be counted as "visionary" in the first place? There's an air of circularity here, as if you achieve "visionary" status by ... achieving visionary status. So many roads lead to Rome that the book is less practical than it might appear. But that's exactly the point of an eloquent chapter on 3M. This wildly successful company had no master plan, little structure, and no prima donnas. Instead it had an atmosphere in which bright people were both keen to see the company succeed and unafraid to "try a lot of stuff and keep what works." --Richard Farr
 

ISBN: 087516000X

As a Man Thinketh  :
by James Allen

Book Description
JAllen has a positive basis for his philosophical thought in that he says law, justice, righteousness are the molding and moving forces in the spiritual governing of the world. When man rights himself humanity, in turn, learns that the universe is right and in focus. One must attain a spiritual focus to learn that as things are viewed, in turn one is viewed by things. The focal point of view changes as things are viewed in one light and perspective and then another, while simultaneously, when being viewed, the focus again is ever changing. All these elements, actions, interactions, gradations flow one into and out of the other to create a spiritual focus.

Your thoughts and your dreams determine what you are and what you will be. This little book is meant to stimulate men and women to the discovery and perception of the truth that they themselves are makers of themselves, by virtue of the thoughts which they choose and encourage. Contents: Effect of Thought on Circumstances; Effect of Thought on Health and Body; Thought and Purpose; Thought Factor in Achievement; Vision and Ideals; Serenity;
 

ISBN: 0380012863

Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach

Editorial Riview

Amazon.com
"Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight--how to get from shore to food and back again," writes author Richard Bach in this allegory about a unique bird named Jonathan Livingston Seagull. "For most gulls it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight." Flight is indeed the metaphor that makes the story soar. Ultimately this is a fable about the importance of seeking a higher purpose in life, even if your flock, tribe, or neighborhood finds your ambition threatening. (At one point our beloved gull is even banished from his flock.) By not compromising his higher vision, Jonathan gets the ultimate payoff: transcendence. Ultimately, he learns the meaning of love and kindness. The dreamy seagull photographs by Russell Munson provide just the right illustrations--although the overall packaging does seem a bit dated (keep in mind that it was first published in 1970). Nonetheless, this is a spirituality classic, and an especially engaging parable for adolescents. --Gail Hudson

From AudioFile
Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a bird who teaches us how to follow our dreams and reach our goals, no matter what anyone else might think. Jonathan is a seagull who wants to master the art of flying, even though his flock has told him many times that all seagulls should concentrate on is getting food. Jonathan has tried to be a "good gull," but he cannot quell his urge to fly. Richard Bach reads this fable in a calm voice that sounds like a blowing wind. When there's fighting among the gulls, the tone of his voice reflects that anger. Jonathan's tale moves us as much as Richard Bach's voice does.

ISBN: 0-385-51291-0

Shift : Inside Nissan's Historic Revival
by Carlos Ghosn


Book Description
In Shift, Carlos Ghosn, the brilliant, audacious, and widely admired CEO of Nissan, recounts how he took the reins of the nearly bankrupt Japanese automotive company and achieved one of the most remarkable turnarounds in automotive—and corporate—history.

When Carlos Ghosn (pronounced like “phone”) was named COO of Nissan in 1999, the company was running out of gas and careening toward bankruptcy. Eighteen short months later, Nissan was back in the black, and within several more years it had become the most profitable large automobile company in the world. In SHIFT, Ghosn describes how he went about accomplishing the seemingly impossible, transforming Nissan once again into a powerful global automotive manufacturer.

ISBN: 0756610559

Leadership by Tom Peters: inspire, liberate, achieve
by Tom Peters


Book Description
Tom Peters is back and in his own words he's "Mad as Hell." Breaking down the message from his bestselling Re-Imagine!, these four pocket-sized books deliver crucial business truths to those who are looking for inspiration on leadership, innovation, design, or women in business.

About the Author
Tom Peters, public speaker and author, graduated from Cornell University and received a M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has also received honorary doctorates from the University of San Francisco and Rhodes College.
He was in the U. S. Navy during Vietnam and later served as a senior White House drug abuse advisor (1973-74). He worked for McKinsey & Company from 1974 to 1981. He holds about seventy-five seminars a year and has created and starred in a series of corporate training films.

ISBN: 0753510995

Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life
by Richard Branson

Synopsis
Global entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson has built a business empire and made billions and is renowned for his approachability and ability to challenge and succeed against the odds. "Screw It, Let's Do It" reveals the lessons that have helped him through his business and personal life, like believing it can be done and that, if others disagree with you, try and try again until you achieve your goal; or that you must love what you do. These and other lessons, with examples of how he learned them and how he's used them, are included in this stirring and candid look at his lessons from an exceptional life, which will inspire you to make a difference in your everyday life.

From the Inside Flap
Throughout my life I have always strived for success - as a businessman, in my adventures, as an author and a proud father and husband. I want to share the many truths I've learned along the road to success which have helped me to be the best I can. They include: Have faith in yourself; Believe that anything can be done; Live life to the full; Never give up. Learn these and other simple truths, and I hope you will be inspired to get the most out of your life and to achieve your goals. People will always try to talk you out of ideas and say: 'It can't be done,' but if you have faith in yourself you'll find you can achieve almost anything.

 

ISBN: 0399153292

The Complete Conversations with God:
by Neale Donald Walsch

Brief Description
For the first time, Books 1, 2, and 3 in the multi-million copy bestselling Conversations with God trilogy are brought together in one special gift edition.

To mark the tenth anniversary of the publication of Conversations with God, Book 1, all three of the most essential books in Neale Donald Walsch's seminal trilogy are brought together in one beautiful volume just in time for the gift-giving season.

Conversations with God, Book 1 was the start of Neale Donald Walsch's ongoing dialogue with God. The trilogy contains the most essential truths and lessons for spiritual seekers, and these books are the bestselling of all the author's works. Featuring a new foreword by the author, printed throughout in two colors, and inserted in a fully enclosed full-color box, this remarkable book will be a Christmas gift to treasure.

About the Author
Neale Donald Walsch is the author of more than twelve books and the founder of the Conversations with God Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring the world to help itself move from violence to peace, from confusion to clarity, and from anger to love.

by Allan Pease, Barbara Pease

It is a scientific fact that people's gestures give away their true intentions. This authoritative guide, written with great humour and insight, reveals all the secrets of body language to give you more confidence and control in any situation. Learn how to: choose the right partner get others to cooperate make yourself likeable and approachable tell if someone is lying read between the lines of what is being said how to use body language to get what you want

 

ISBN: 0071414347

Creating Organizational Excellence by Identifying, Developing, and Promoting Your Best People

by Lance A. Berger, Dorothy R. Berger
 

The Talent Management Handbook explains how organizations can identify and get the most out of “high-potential people” by developing and promoting them to key positions.

The book explains:

1. A system for integrating three human resources “building blocks”: organizational competencies, performance appraisal, and forecasting employee/manager potential

2. Six human resources conditions necessary for organization excellence

3. How to link your employee assessment process to career planning and development

The Talent Management Handbook will help you design career plans that boost employee morale, as well as create and sustain excellence in your organization. It is full of simple, efficient, easy-to-follow methods for assessing, planning, and developing high-value people to meet your organization’s current and future needs. And it will help you combine your organization’s diverse human resources activities into a single, cogent system.

Featuring best practices from leading companies as well as contributions from field experts who hold top positions in such leading HR consultancies as AON Consulting, The Hay Group, Hewitt Associates, Right Management Consulting. Sibson Consulting, and Towers Perrin, The Talent Management Handbook is an authoritative resource for creating and maintaining excellence in your organization through people management.
 

ISBN: 0062515675

• Develop joyful thoughts,
• Follow our life's mission and calling,
• Cultivate Self-Discipline and act courageously,
• Value time as our most important commodity,
• Nourish our Relationships, And
• Live fully, one day at a time.

1. - Rich Dad, Poor Dad, the bestselling personal finance guide for the millions hoping to become masters of their money
2. - Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant, the follow-up to Rich Dad, Poor Dad, reveals why some people work less and earn more, pay less taxes, and feel more financially secure than others
3. - Rich Dad's Guide to Investing covers the basic rules of investing, including how to reduce investment risk and how to convert earned income into passive and portfolio income.

ISBN:009-953641-2

ISBN: 0309084105

Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
The forces shaping the life of renowned physicist Hawking seem as strangely charged as those he describes in his physics. His British biographers, both scientists, examine their subject's personal history and ably fill in the spaces between his great leaps of theory. They avoid sentimentalizing the physicist's disabling ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), which struck him in his early 20s, while acknowledging that the condition has had a dramatic impact on his life and reputation. Gathering information from Hawking's colleagues (but not his estranged wife), the authors discuss his authorial success as well as his academic career, not failing to offer such bits of humanizing gossip as that he has a poster of Marilyn Monroe on his office door. Readers of Hawking's bestselling A Brief History of Time will find much of interest in this longer view of physics at work in one extraordinary person's life.

ISBN 0470844914

by Kees Van Der Heijden

This book is about organizational survival: the reasons why organizations do not always survive, and what can be done about it.
'Organizational learning and scenario planning are seen by many business people as two separate disciplines, with different programmes and communities of practice. This book builds a bridge between the two. I believe this is important. It will invite the organizational learners to develop a deeper perspective on the longer-term business environment, and it will invite the scenario planners to consider their work in the context of organizational survival and development. Both will be better off, to the benefit of their organizations.' ARIE DE GEUS, author of The Living Company
 

ISBN 0-201-48328-9

by Sam Deep and Lyle Sussman

Whether you're in charge of a small business, a big department, or a growing corporation, you face more challenges than meat managers. Smart Moves for People in Charge answers the big question for people with big responsibilities. Easy-to-use checklists explain how leaders motivate and manage groups, uncover new ideas, stay close to customers, handle budgets, and find balance in a busy Me.
 

by Mark Brown

This excellent book will prepare its readers, or rather its users, to achieve optimum success for themselves and their organisations.

when you suggest a new idea or a new way of doing things in your organisation, is it greeted with a chorus of 'yes...buts'? Or an 'interesting' write me a report on it'? Yes - then you could be working for a disosaur.

The dinosaur strain in unmistakable - there is a lack of vitality, innovation and energy. Most of all, in a dinosaur
organisatiton there is simply no FUN.

But there are organisations, small, medium and enormous which are alive, great fun to work for an innovative as well. This book is abaout the steps you can take to ensure that you and your organisation never become dinosaurs.
 

ISBN : 0938529137

by David B. Peterson, Mary Dee Hicks

Development First is concise guide that provides practical ways to integrate development with your responsibilities and goals so you can do your job better, now and in the future. "First" is an acronym for the five simple steps that can help drive your development.

 

ISBN : 0830823093

by Duane Elmer

It's a small world after all. With the new realities of global interconnectedness comes a greater awareness of cultural diversity from place to place. Besides differences in food and fashion, we face significant contrasts of cultural orientation and patterns of thinking. As we travel across cultures, what should we expect? How do we deal with culture shock? And can we truly connect with those we meet?
Experienced cross-cultural specialist Duane Elmer provides a compass for navigating through different cultures. He shows us how to avoid pitfalls and cultural faux pas, as well as how to make the most of opportunities to build cross-cultural relationships. Filled with real-life illustrations and practical exercises, this guide offers the tools needed to reduce apprehension, communicate effectively, and establish genuine trust and acceptance.

 

ISBN : 0077098307

by Mike Pedler, John Burgoyne, Tom Boydell

This updated version of the highly successful Manager's Guide to Self Development builds on the increasing emphasis on self development as well as the way forward for managers. It offers the manager an effective, lively and practical strategy for understanding a programme of self development. The book is divided into two parts - the first outlines the authors' philosophy and method and uses some simple diagnostic tests to help the reader discover their strengths and weaknesses. Based on this understanding of needs, the second part of the book takes the manager through eleven key qualities, essential for successful management, in 49 practical exercises. The exercises have now been updated in range to cover more issues in communication and working in teams. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


 

ISBN : 0070504776

by: Scott Plous

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING offers a comprehensive introduction to the field with a strong focus on the social aspects of decision making processes. Highlighting the role of psychological experimentation, THE PSYCHOLOGY OF JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING is an informative and engaging introduction to the field written in a style that is equally accessible to the introductory psychology student, the lay person, or the professional. A unique feature of this volume is the Reader Survey which readers are to complete before beginning the book. The questions in the Reader Survey are drawn from many of the studies discussed throughout the book, allowing readers to compare their answers with the responses given by people in the original studies. This title is part of The McGraw-Hill Series in Social Psychology.


 

ISBN : 0787955477

An Uncommon Journey of Spirit

by: Lee G. Bolman & Terrence E Deal

Many books describe elements of church leadership— what it is and how to do it— but very few focus on the process of personal transformation that is central to being able to lead well. The Leader's Journey provides a blueprint and the practical tools needed to transform the lives of pastors and congregational lay leaders so that they can become truly effective leaders. Blending the best of sound psychological research, solid Biblical principles, and proven congregational experiences— authors Jim Herrington, Robert Creech, and Trisha Taylor offer step-by-step guidance for engaging in the personal transformation journey as part of effective congregational leadership.

 

ISBN : 0-7506-4255-6

by: Brian Clegg

Creativity and Innovation for Managers will appeal to any manager responsible for getting more out of a business. Creative thinking, creative problem solving and creative idea generation have become essential business drivers. This book provides an excellent executive briefing for senior management to understand what business creativity is, how it can benefit the company, and how to get the most out of it. It looks at the pitfalls on the road to innovation and the ways to avoid them, pulling together the experiences of key practitioners in the field both in the UK and the US.

By concentrating on the essentials, Creativity and Innovation In Brief is a waffle-free approach to creativity, providing a quick action focused and accessible insight into a complex topic.

It provides;
- a practical approach to business creativity without the hype;
- an agenda for making innovation happen in your business
- a real world view.

What is business creativity and how can it benefit your company?
How to avoid the pitfalls of creativity and innovation
Practical and action-focused
 

ISBN : 0-19-510011-5

A Collection of Readngs

by: Michael L. Thushman and  Philip Anderson

This book shows the links among innovation, organizational architecture, executive teams, and managing change. The 41 articles that are included in this book have been carefully chosen from the current literature, with an introductory essay by the authors in which they show how the diagnostic model is applied to the problem of managing innovation. In the introductory essay, the authors highlight themes recurring throughout the book, such as the systems nature of technology, the importance of history and path dependence, the cross-functional nature of innovation management, the paradox between efficiency and adaptability, and the role of executive leadership in managing through turbulence. The introduction provides a helpful road map that offers a coherent rationale for studying innovation management.

All modules in the book have editorial introductions that help to reinforce the links among technology, organizational architectures, and executive and managing teams. Introductions are also included for each chapter, explaining the fundamental point each reading raises and how it is integrated within the rest of the book.

Managing Strategic Innovation and Change also features readings on topics including technological evolution, technology strategy, globalization, and organizational learning, offering a complete set of readings on the management of innovation.

 

ISBN : 1-886284-46-6

by: Robert W. Bradford and J. Peter Duncan With Brian Tracy

A No Nonsense Guide for Busy People Who Want Results Fast!

Simplified strategic Planning is more than a philosophy, more than a fact or a flavour of the month. This book brings a refreshing break from the pop-up solutions and management facts - - it offers a road map to success and answers essential questions of business:

• What are you going to sell
• What are your customers
• How can you beat or avoid the competition

Strategy does not have to be complicated. With a time-proven method for putting together a strategic plan, Simplified Strategic Planning takes you an a step-by-step journey. You'll learn to map out an appropriate course for your company and be guided by vivid examples of how companies have followed this process - enabling you to dramatically improve results. The process is detailed, not complicated.
 

ISBN : 0-671-73335-4

by: Dale Carnegie

This book can change your life!

Through Dale Carnegie's six-million-copy bestseller recently revised, millions of people have been helped to overcome the worry hobbit. Dale Carnegie offers a set of practical formulas you can put to work today. In the fast-paced world of the 1990's -- formulas that will last a lifetime!

Discover how to:

• Eliminate fifty percent of business worries immediately
• Reduce financial worries
• Avoid fatigue -- and keep looking you
• Add one hour a day to your waking life

Find yourself and be yourself -- remember there is no one else on earth like you!

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living deals with fundamental emotions and ideas. It is fascinating to read and easy to apply. Let it change and improve you. There's no need to live with worry and anxiety that keep you from enjoying a full, active and happy life!
 

ISBN : 0131793187

by: H. Scott Fogler, Steven E. LeBlanc

Synopsis
Examines the components of problem-solving, and presents a series of graduated exercises drawn from a variety of industrial applications to familiarize, reinforce, challenge and stretch readers in the problem-solving process. The text leads readers step-by-step through a complete problem-solving process, from encountering an ill-defined problem to identifying a real problem, effectively exploring constraints, planning a robust approach, carrying it through to a viable solution, and then evaluating what has been accomplished.
 

ISBN : 1-57322-111-2

A handbook for living

by: His Holiness The Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler, M.D.

From The Art of happiness

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, i think the very motion of our life is towards happiness.

If you maintain a feeling of compassion, loving kindness, then something automatically opens your inner door. Through that, you can communicate more easily with other people. and that feeling of warmth creates a kind of openness. You'll find that all human beings are just like you, so you'll by able to relate to them more easily. That gives you a spirit of friendship, Then there's less need to hide things, and as a result, feelings of fear, self-doubt, and insecurity are automatically dispelled.

by: Steve Levinson, PhD and Pete C. Greider, Med
 

DO YOU...

LET CAREER OPPORTUNITIES SLIP AWAY?

NEGLECT YOUR HEALTH OR RELATIONSHIPS?

LET UNPLEASANT CHORES KEEP POLING UP?

MAKE MORE PROMISES THAN YOU KEEP?

THEN, YOU NEED THIS BOOK!

If you've started the great American novel, only to leave it sitting in your desk drawer after the first chapter, sworn off your daily pack of cigarettes but resumed smoking after one day, or ignored a tight budget every time you stepped into a shopping mall, you're not alone. Failing to do what we intend to do has reached epidemic proportions in our society today. And while most of us believe we need more willpower or a better character, to=do lists or time management systems to finish what we've started, chances are we've already tried it all...and nothing works. FOLLOWING THROUGH will not only reveal the startling reason why, it will teach you powerful new strategies for achieving all your goals.

ISBN : 0-684-84869-4

by: Steven K. Scott

Here are the keys to turnings all your dreams into reality.
Whether your dreams are to start a business, lose twenty pounds, or build better relationships, they are all within your grasp. The keys are in the "Power Secrets," a set of specific strategies and techniques that enabled Steve Scott to fulfill his impossible dreams, not only in business, but in every other area of life. Along the way, he discovered that the world's most successful women and men - such as Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, and Bill Gates - use these same techniques, including:

• Overcoming a fear of failure
• Turning critics from foes into friends
• Gaining a clear and precise vision
• Recruting the partners and mentors of your dreams
• Communicating effectively and persuasively
• Taking control of your life one minute at a time
• Igniting the fuel of passion

With stories, advice and plenty of interactive material to help you create your own personal plan. Simple Steps to Impossible Dreams doesn't just motivate you to fulfill your dreams, it gives you the step-by-step directions to do it!

by Juan Arias

Paulo Coelho: Confessions of a Pilgrim offers readers a chance to get to know Paulo Coelho's dramatic, inspirational life story for the first time. Coelho has always been a non-conformist, constantly searching for new paths and savouring both the good and the bad that came his way. After an unorthodox career path, he turned to writing, and has become one of the most successful authors in the world. The intimate portrait by Juan Arias offers Paulo's compelling first-hand accounts of his experience of:

Being confined to a mental institution as a young man simply because he was an artist , Kidnapping and torture by paramilitaries, Encounters with black magic and drugs, An epiphany at Dachau and a vision he had of his own death, The nature of writing and the spiritual quest

ISBN : 0-07-071868-7

by: Anne Bruce & James S. Pepitone

In a fast-paced, engaging style, Motivating Employees reveals how Southwest Airlines, Disney, Ben & Jerry's and others legendary companies have turned themselves into "motivating organization"- workplaces that inspire employees to do excellent work because they want to!! Entertaining case histories and examples show how you can create an environment in which employees feel passionate about their jobs, and put the best of themselves into everything they do.

by: Lynn Lively

Everyone procrastinates. The question is, is doing nothing working for you or against you? Author Lynn Lively, a self-confessed (but reformed) procrastinator, will help you get to where you want to go...with no more excuses. With THE PROCRASTINATOR'S GUIDE TO SUCCESS, you can stop losing precious time, break the cycle of self-blame, overcome inertia, and create the life you really want.

Procrastination can be defined as the failure to make things happen. But are you really procrastinating, or simply thinking about a problem to be solved? THE PROCRASTINATOR'S GUIDE TO SUCCESS will show you how to tell the difference!

You will also learn how to: work through "worst-case" scenarios; figure out what's within your control and what isn't; procrastinate strategically; and, finally, practice self-direction! Special sections include: Confessions of a Procrastinator; "Brain-dumps," "Gut-wrenchers," "Busywork Alerts," and other handy lists. Want to be your own biggest fan? Be the hero of your own life by making your own dreams come true. Read THE PROCRASTINATOR'S GUIDE TO SUCCESS and prepare for your life to change.

ISBN: 0875847471

Leading Change

by John P. Kotter

The world's foremost expert on business leadership distills twenty-five years of experience and wisdom based on lessons he has learned from scores of organizations and businesses to write this visionary guide. The result is a very personal book that is at once inspiring, clear-headed, and filled with important implications for the future.

ISBN : 0-07-001079-X

ISBN : 1-878424-11-4

ISBN: 1-84028-134-0

ISBN: 0-446-38281-7

In Search of Excellence
by: Thomas J. Peters & Robert H. Waterman Jr.

To discover the secrets of our "native art", Thomas Peters, an alumnus of the management consulting firm of McKinsey & Company who runs his own consulting firm, and Robert Waterman, studied forty-three successful American companies. There they are, amply illustrated with anecdotes and examples from the experiences of these best-run companies to make them accessible and practical for you to use.

ISBN # 0-273-65241-9

In a world where the only thing you can be certain of is uncertainty, business leaders need to stop trying to control the uncontrollable, and start embracing the unknown.

This book demonstrates how to be comfortable with ambiguity, confident with change, open to discovery, and at ease with the new world of business. Knowing this, you can lead with confidence and flexibility, whatever the situation.

ISBN # 0-07-913730-X

Creativity Toolkit
by H. James Harrington
The Creativity Toolkit is a communications package designed to break down the barriers between the left and right-hand sides of your brain, getting them to both work in harmony to provide creative solutions to previously unsolvable problems. it is packed with tools that help you go beyond conventional thinking to pursue breakthrough solutions in every situation.

ISBN #0-471-15377-X-52

ISBN #0-471-38246-9

Global Smarts
by Sheida Hodge
Executives need to know how to communicate effectively with their associates around the world to remain competitive. In "Global Smarts", Sheida Hodge, a successful international entrepreneur and one of the most sought-after cross-cultural business trainers, shares her proven strategies for successfully dealing with such issues as language barriers, culture shock, international negotiation tactics, and how to establish trust on a cross-cultural basis

Why Men Don't Listen & Women Can't Read Maps
by Barbara & Allan Pease

For their controversial new book on the differences between the way men and women
think and communicate, the authors spent three 3 years traveling around the world
collating the dramatic findings of new research on the brain, investigating evolutionary biology
analyzing psychologists, studying social changes, and annoying the locals.

The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho 

The main concept revolving around "The Alchemist" is that when you dream of something, the whole universe conspires to help you achieve that goal. In searching for your destiny, your personality evolves to a new dimension which in itself is an achievement.
This book has been translated in 35 languages. Download Book

ISBN #9971-64-269-7

"One of the few to deserve the term "publishing phenomenon."  --INDEPENDENCE ON SUNDAY

"His books have had life-enhancing impact on millions of people." --THE TIMES

"Coelho's writing is beautifully poetic, but his message is what counts...He gives me hope and puts a smile to my face."   --THE EXPRESS

His Holiness The Dalai Lama 
The Joy of Living and Dying in Peace

Bringing us closer to the essence of Buddhist teachings, and to his own peerless insight, His Holiness the Dalai Lama offers his thoughts on achieving a meaningful life and peaceful death.
His Holiness provides straightforward practices, on the acceptance of death impermanence, our gift of human potential , and on achievement of joy, peace and spiritual fulfillment in this lifetime.