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The Fearless Front Line: The Key to Liberating Leaders to Improve and Grow Their Business Ray Attiyah Bibliomotion Books & Media (2013) Two key questions: “Liberate leaders from what?” and “How to do that?” No one can deny that every…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brian Halligan for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the Illustration complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…
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In the latest of five bestselling books, Unthinking: The Surprising Forces Behind What We Buy, Harry Beckwith shares a number of especially valuable insights and I have consolidated several of them in these two mosaics of excerpts: “We could excuse…
Read MoreAre you looking for practical, how-to solutions to life’s personal challenges? Best selling author Dr. Edward (“Ned”) Hallowell offers groundbreaking advice on how to survive in an ultra-competitive, ultra fast, attention deficit society while remaining sane, how to raise happy…
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I am grateful to the ArticlesFactory.com website for the information that follows. President’s Day is a federal holiday, which is celebrated in the U.S on the third Monday of February. The holiday is dedicated to the first president, George Washington and…
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Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age Marty Neumeier New Riders Press (December 2012) Note: There are a few books that I re-read at least once year because they have had such a great impact on my personal growth and…
Read MoreIn his career as an organizational consultant, relationship counselor, and hostage-negotiation trainer, Mark Goulston has found what works, consistently, to reach all kinds of people in any type of situation. In his book Real Influence: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain…
Read MoreThe Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are Alan Watts Vintage Books/Random House (1989) [Note: Of all the books I have reviewed for various Amazon websites thus far, none has attracted more reader comments than has this “little”…
Read MoreJeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, where he has taught since 1979. Prior to Stanford, Pfeffer taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University…
Read MoreGood Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters Richard Rumelt Crown Business (2011) How and why a good strategy “acknowledges the challenges being faced and provides an approach to overcome them As the title of this review correctly indicates,…
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