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Recommended Books
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Now, 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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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. |
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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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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. |
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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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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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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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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 manner how to take that learning and directly apply it to
effect a good-to-great transformation in any
company
If 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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