Posted by admin on 11 Nov 2009 at 12:02 am under Business
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“I strongly recommend that you buy one copy of Peopleware for yourself and another copy for your boss. If you are a boss, then buy one for everyone in your department, and buy one for your boss.”
Demarco and Lister demonstrate that the major [...]
Posted by admin on 12 Sep 2009 at 4:43 am under Business
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Winner of the 2004 George R. Terry Book Award! Teams have more talent and experience, more diverse resources, and greater operating flexibility than individual performers. So why do so many teams either struggle unpleasantly toward an unsatisfactory conclusion-or, worse, crash and burn shortly after launch? [...]
Posted by admin on 10 Aug 2009 at 12:28 am under Business
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From Library Journal
Jaworski, the son of Watergate special prosecutor Leon Jaworski, here presents his personal philosophy of life. As founder of the American Leadership Forum, Jaworski espouses the value of servant leadership, which calls for leadership that is relationship-oriented, creative, and constructive. Additionally, he comments [...]
Posted by admin on 31 Jul 2009 at 6:41 am under Business
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This book is an invaluable addition to The One Minute Manager library because “it is clear that high-performing teams are the most important business trend for the 1990s,” according to Dr. Ken Blanchard and his collaborators explain the four states of development all groups move through and reveal how a manager [...]
Posted by admin on 12 Jul 2009 at 7:54 pm under Business
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Office face-time may always play a critical role in certain corporate settings, but technology and globalization have combined to thrust “virtual meetings” into an increasingly important place on today’s overall business stage. With once-rigid boundaries of time, geography, and even organization now rapidly disappearing, members of [...]
Posted by admin on 15 Jun 2009 at 9:30 am under Business
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“A year had passed since our last strategy+business review of leadership book and CEO memoirs, so a trip to Borders was in order to see what was new in those categories. We discovered almost all the books in the management section had been published within [...]
Posted by admin on 03 Apr 2009 at 5:13 am under Recommended
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From Publishers Weekly
The importance of teams has become a cliche of modern business theory, but few have a clear idea of what it means. In this new edition of their best-selling primer, Katzenbach and Smith try to impart some analytical rigor to the concept. Drawing [...]
Posted by admin on 03 Mar 2009 at 12:17 am under Recommended
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The third volume in the internationally bestselling McKinsey Trilogy, The McKinsey Engagement is an action guide to realizing the consistently high level of business solutions achieved by the experts at the world�s most respected consulting. firms.
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Former consultant Dr. Paul Friga distills the guiding principles first presented in the bestselling The McKinsey Way [...]
Posted by admin on 02 Mar 2009 at 10:58 pm under Recommended
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Winner of the 2004 George R. Terry Book Award! Teams have more talent and experience, more diverse resources, and greater operating flexibility than individual performers. So why do so many teams either struggle unpleasantly toward an unsatisfactory conclusion-or, worse, crash and burn shortly after launch? [...]
Posted by admin on 28 Feb 2009 at 10:22 pm under Recommended
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“The customer relationships that a company is able to cultivate represent the most important asset that will never appear on its balance sheet.” -From Chapter 1 of Build Your Customer Strategy
Build Your Customer Strategy: A Guide to Creating Profitable Customer Relationships spells out how [...]
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