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Resources To Help You &
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Helpful Links
www.apqc.org - The American
Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) helps enterprises manage
change, improve processes, leverage knowledge, and increase
performance
www.brint.com - A business
library for KM and other business practices
www.ccl.org- Center for
Creative Leadership
www.business.com-
The
leading business search engine and directory designed to help
its users find the companies, products, services, and
information they need to make the right business decisions.
www.womensleadership.com - Women in Leadership provides
women managers valuable leadership resources.
www.witi.org - Women In
Technology Careers
www.coachfederation.org
- International Coaching
Federation
www.coachu.com
- First Virtual Coaching University
www.sol-ne.org
- Society for Organizational Learning
www.businessweek.com
- Business Magazine
www.shrm.org
Society For Human Resource Management
www.hr.com HR Jobs, Training, Information Super- Site
www.astd.org
- American Society for Training & Development
www.ispi.org-
International Society for Performance & Improvement
www.odnetwork.org- Organizational Development Network |
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Books
The book list provided below consists of selections relating
to the latest organizational & leadership development
concepts. All books
can be purchased from Amazon.com.
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Discover Your Strengths
by Marcus Buckingham,
Donald O. Clifton
Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and
strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around
them. Instead, guided by our parents, by our teachers, by our
managers, and by psychology's fascination with pathology, we
become experts in our weaknesses and spend our lives trying to
repair these flaws, while our strengths lie dormant and
neglected. This book is an eye opener for anyone who wants to
build success around his/her strengths.
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 The
Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management
Designed to
aid managers master specific topics, the books in this series
cover a number of aspects of business in the late-20th
century. This text deals with knowledge management.
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 Knowledge
Management Field book
Knowledge
management is one of the big ideas of the moment. In essence
the idea is simple--all organizations have a wealth of
information (both from inside and outside) at their disposal,
yet few make the most of it. Moreover successfully using
information is one of the key differentiators of successful
companies. |
 Managing
Knowledge
Managing Knowledge is a new and vital skill for
corporations. In the information economy, the organization that knows the most about itself and its
business is best positioned for success. But, how do you begin to implement a knowledge management
strategy? How can you get started making better use of your organizations data, information, and
knowledge? Managing Knowledge is the first practical guide to applying the theories and reaping the
benefits of knowledge management. |
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 The New Organizational Wealth: Managing and
Measuring Knowledge-Based Assets
This groundbreaking book offers practical advice and
rules of thumb for designing a business strategy that focuses on knowledge as an intangible asset. In
eight chapters, Sveiby assembles a veritable toolbox of knowledge-based management techniques to enable
managers to meet the new business challenges of the coming century.
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 The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization
Peter M. Senge, Founder and Director of the Center
for Organizational Learning at MIT's Sloan Management has found a means of creating a learning
organization. He draws the blueprints for an organization where people expand their capacity to create
the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where
collective aspiration is et free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together.
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 The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and
Tools for Building a Learning Organization
A step-by-step guide to establishing learning
organizations within existing companies functions as a participative workbook, with exercises for both
individuals and teams, suggested approaches and ideas, and success
stories.... |
 Working Knowledge
This influential book establishes the enduring
vocabulary and concepts in the field of Knowledge Management. It provides practical advice about
implementing a knowledge management system. Before you starting any knowledge management program, invest
the time and read this book. |
 Process Innovation: Reengineering Work Through
Information Technology
A roadmap for process innovation and improvement.
Davenport presents a practical roadmap for process improvement and process innovation which I have found
very useful as a practitioner. Although not prescriptive, the text provides practitioners with useful
very insights. |
 Working With Emotional Intelligence
A thoughtfully written, persuasive account explaining
emotional intelligence and why it can be crucial to your career. This book is comprehensively
researched, crisply written and packed with fascinating case histories of triumphs, disasters and
dramatic turnarounds. The secrets of success is not what they taught you in school, the single most
important factor in job performance and advancement is emotional intelligence.
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 Enabling Knowledge Creation : How to Unlock the
Mystery of Tacit Knowledge and Release the Power of Innovation
This book gives managers the tools to apply the power
of knowledge creation. It is very practical and action oriented. It is full of useful frameworks and
suggestions as well as case studies of successful companies in Japan, Europe, and the United States.
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 The Inner Game of Work
Do you think it's possible to truly enjoy your job?
No matter what it is or where you are? Learn how to overcome the inner obstacles that sabotage your
efforts to be your best on the job. Gallwey's taken his Inner Game expertise to many of America's top
companies, including AT&T, Coca-Cola, Apple & IBM, to teach their managers and employees how to gain
better access to their internal resources. |
 The
Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things
Done in Organizations
Emphasizing the critical role of leadership in human
organizations, a leadership handbook offers guidelines for business, government, education, and
community sectors that take into account the ever-changing needs of modern-day life. From a research
base of 60,000 leaders and constituents, this book is insightful and jargon-free. You'll learn the 5
fundamental practices of leadership, the 10 commitments these practices embody, and very practical
exercises to integrate true leadership into your day-to-day life. A MUST if you want to make the
transition from manager to leader. |
 Synchronicity : The Inner Path of Leadership
"Synchronicity illustrates that leadership is about
the release of human possibilities, about enabling others to break free of limits-created
organizationally or self-imposed. Although this book describes the author's personal journey, it
contains profound messages about organizational learning and effectiveness." This book was sparked by
the discussions attorney Joe Jaworski had with his father, special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski,
about the lack of moral and ethical standards at high levels. The author maintains that true leadership
creates a domain in which people become ever more capable and "predictable miracles" can happen.
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 The Last Word on Power : Re-Invention for Leaders
and Anyone Who Must Make the Impossible Happen
Today's leaders are reinventing everything but
themselves, and this is why so many attempts to revolutionize business fail. The last word on power is
the key method in reinventing executives so they can take on "a mission impossible" based on a course
designed and run exclusively for the past fifteen years by Tracy Goss. Goss's unique methodology shows
how "you can put at risk the success you have achieved for the 'possibility' you can be." She shows how
you can be at home in an environment in which you are constantly surrounded by threats, and how to
transcend the ordinary so that you can make the impossible happen.
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 The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining
Momentum in Learning Organizations
Since its release in 1990, Peter M. Senge's best
selling The Fifth Discipline has converted readers to its innovative business principles of the
"learning organization," personal mastery, and systems thinking. Published nearly a decade later, Dance
of Change provides a formidable response to businesspeople wondering how to make his programs stick.
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 Leading Change : The Argument for Values-Based
Leadership
One of America's most esteemed management thinkers
offers a book that transcends how-to management primers, offering an unorthodox approach to leadership
based on the lessons of history, moral and political philosophy, and the practical experience of men and
women across cultures and circumstances. |
 The Corporate Mystic: A Guidebook for Visionaries
With Their Feet on the Ground
Gay & Kate gather the wisdom of one hundred top
businesspeople, explaining the twelve qualities of leaders, how to make intuitive decisions, how to
think ahead, and the importance of creativity, responsibility, and communication. This is a fast, yet
thoughtful read with great real-life stories. |
 The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become
the Creative Force in Your Own Life
Robert Fritz outlines an exciting and different
approach to using creativity in everyday life. He shows that creativity is not a special gift given to
the very few, but a skill that can be learned in order to change and improve every aspect of life. A
classic book! |
 The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance
Organization
This book offers valuable advice in the fine art of
building teams for high performance results. The authors provide real and disguised examples along with
specific recommendations and offer useful ideas for balancing work responsibilities, executive egos,
communications and skills. |
 The Project 50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to
Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!
The common denominator/bottom line for both the
professional service firm and the individual or the Brand You is: the project. And for the cool
individual in the cool professional service firm there is only one answer: the cool project. Learn how
to transform your current projects into wow projects-if you dare!
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 Team Talk : The Power of Language in Team Dynamics
In the tradition of the works of Deborah Tannen, Team
Talk analyzes team conversations and their organizational contexts to explain why cross-functional
teamwork is so challenging for professional employees. Drawing on interviews and observations of teams
in Fortune 200 companies, Donnellon lets readers listen in on actual team conversations to explore the
inherent paradoxes of teamwork. |
 The Way of the Superior Man : A Spiritual Guide to
Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
With uncommon honesty and unparalleled insight into
the deepest desires of the masculine heart, David Deida explores the most challenging and important
issues in men's lives. Covering everything from work and career, to dealing with sex, women, and love,
to finding purpose in an increasingly superficial and mechanical world, this book reveals how a man can
live a life of fulfillment without compromise by relaxing into the truth of his very being, discovering
his deepest vision, and giving his gifts without holding anything back.
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 Your Money or Your Life : Transforming Your
Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence
Your Money or Your Life hit the market just as the
workers of America were discovering the void in the center of their post-'80s consumer-driven values.
The book's premise is based on life force: we drain it in order to earn more so that we can consume
more. The nine-step process shows how to frame personal finances in a whole new context. For example,
every purchase can be measured on a scale of life force: when grocery shopping, consider how much of
your life force it took to earn the money for a gourmet brand of jam. Will the pleasure it brings match
or exceed that life force? If not, put it back on the shelf. Other steps are as fundamental as wise
investing and how to downscale spending while maintaining a sense of abundance.
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 The Heart of Coaching : Using Transformational
Coaching to Create a High-Performance Culture
Learn and practice the core competencies of coaching
with individuals, teams and within organizations. |
 Coaching for Performance (People Skills for
Professionals)
Clear, concise, hands-on, and reader friendly, this
is a coaching guide written in a coaching style. |
 Co-Active Coaching : New Skills for Coaching
People Toward Success in Work and Life
By the founders of The Coaches Training Institute,
this book is on the cutting edge and based on sound principles. While there is no right coaching model
it provides a starting point for those new to the coaching profession. The tools and techniques for
probing, getting answers and really listening are alone worth the cost of the book.
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 Take Yourself to the Top : The Secrets of
America's #1 Career Coach
A fantastic fast-read both for professionals who want
help for their lives and work and for coaches to learn great strategies from one of America's most
well-known coaches. |
 Coach Yourself to Success 101 Tips from a Personal
Coach for Reaching Your Goals at Work and in Life
An easy, doable and highly effective action plan for
attracting the good things in life - including peace of mind. This book is your blueprint for the life
you've always dreamed about having. |
Good
to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't
Reader-friendly GOOD TO GREAT is
one of those rare books that presents important research
findings, and then explains in a clear, concise and compelling
mann er
how to take that learning and directly apply it to effect a
good-to-great transformation in any company
I f you are serious about
changing the course of your company and you only have time to
read one book this year, GOOD TO GREAT should be the one. Hats
off to Jim Collins, who was not content to sit back and grin
after co-authoring the highly successful BUILT TO LAST, but
tackled a book that should make an even greater impact on the
future of businesses, large and small. |
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services, such as the designing of logos, business cards,
letterheads and PowerPoint presentations. |
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