Editorial Reviews
In The Keys to Conflict Resolution, noted mediator Theodore W. Kheel tells how he helped resolve some of the great showdowns between management and labor over the past 50 years in America. Tapped as a mediator by presidents, governors, and business leaders, Kheel is a veteran of [...]
Editorial Reviews
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If you have begun using Mark McNeilly’s Sun Tzu and the Art of Business to improve your operations, you’re undoubtedly a leader. If you plan to read the book in the near future, you’re certainly a comer. — Strategy & Leadership Journal
If [...]
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“Gostick and Christopher are serious about levity and its impact on the bottom line, and have plenty of ideas for generating laughter.” (Personnel Today, Mon 17th March 2008)
“Why every company needs a fun strategy”. (Economist.com, Tuesday 15th April 2008)
“Gostick and Christopher are [...]
What Management Is, by former Harvard Business Review editors Joan Magretta and Nan Stone, identifies management as the driving force behind key innovations of the past century and presents a jargon-free look at the way its core principles work. Designed to promote “managerial literacy” up and down the business food chain, as well [...]
From Booklist
Any work authored or edited by Gardner (Harvard professor, author of Changing Minds, 2006, among other works) is worth investigating. This collection of essays is no exception. What Gardner and esteemed colleagues (such as Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and William Damon) have developed is a definition and taxonomy [...]
If you’re looking to build your deal-making chops, there is no better school than the world of professional sports. Few authors are as qualified to guide you through that rough-and-tumble terrain as Ken Shropshire.
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From the Fortune 500 to the NFL, from Don King to big city mayors, Ken has negotiated major sports [...]
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“‘Seven Secrets…’ is a no-nonsense books written in broad brushstrokes telling what it takes to become a profitable contractor for any level of government.” –Inland Empire Business Journal
Almost everyone has faced the frustrating task of negotiating with government [...]
From Publishers Weekly
Although his career ended in spectacular defeat, Confederate general Lee’s accomplishments were extraordinary, maintains Kaltman, in this solid if simple-minded guide to advancement at work based on anecdotes from Lee’s battlefield experiences. From Lee’s military career before the Civil War, Kaltman extracts a lesson about [...]
From Library Journal
The great “angst” of life has seemingly gripped us all, and there seems to be no limit to the number of writers offering answers to the great perplexities of life. Covey, however, is the North Star in this field. Following his successful Seven Habits of [...]
What truly drives a leader?
The role of leadership is crucial to every occupation-whether you’re in business, or government, whether you’re a parent or a teacher, and whether you’re at the early stages of your career, or are at a crossroads after decades of success.
Linkage CEO Phil Harkins and ARC Financial Corp cofounder Phil Swift have [...]
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