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Table of Contents

  1. Leadership in Management
  2. Managing People
  3. Power and  Conflict-creative uses
  4. Managing a Business
  5. Asian Business Etiquette and Insights
  6. Fun in the Office

Leadership in Management

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First, Break All the Rules: What the..

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Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman expose the fallacies of standard management thinking in First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently. In seven chapters, the two consultants for the Gallup Organization debunk some dearly held notions about management, such as "treat people as you like to be treated"; "people are capable of almost anything"; and "a manager's role is diminishing in today's economy." "Great managers are revolutionaries," the authors write. "This book will take you inside the minds of these managers to explain why they have toppled conventional wisdom and reveal the new truths they have forged in its place."

 

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Now, Discover Your Strengths

 Amazon.com's Best of 2001
Effectively managing personnel--as well as one's own behavior--is an extraordinarily complex task that, not surprisingly, has been the subject of countless books touting what each claims is the true path to success. That said, Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton's Now, Discover Your Strengths does indeed propose a unique approach: focusing on enhancing people's strengths rather than eliminating their weaknesses. Following up on the coauthors' popular previous book, First, Break All the Rules, it fully describes 34 positive personality themes the two have formulated (such as Achiever, Developer, Learner, and Maximizer) and explains how to build a "strengths-based organization" by capitalizing on the fact that such traits are already present among those within it.

 

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Leading people

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Bringing Out the Best in People : How to...

 Ingram
Alan Loy McGinnis writes about twelve key principles gleaned from the lives of successful people--past and present--which can be used to motivate people to be and do their best.

 

 

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The One Minute Manager

 The One-Minute Manager, adapted from Blanchard's classic book which sold more than a million copies, is a parable about a young man in search of world-class management skills. The authors' message is so simple it's brilliant: a "One-Minute Manager" achieves positive results with a minimum of time

 

Influencing With Integrity: Management...

 Reviewer: sbryks
Although this book is 10 years old, it remains very "current" and powerful. Communicating is the essence of what people do, and so often failure of good communications inhibits and injures. The book offers a great insight and practical approaches to improving communications and negotiating for positive outcomes. A "must" for anyone, but especially for people whose work involves communicating with others (most of us).
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Power and Conflict-creative uses

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The 48 Laws of Power

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"Learning the game of power requires a certain way of looking at the world, a shifting of perspective," writes Robert Greene. Mastery of one's emotions and the arts of deception and indirection are, he goes on to assert, essential. The 48 laws outlined in this book "have a simple premise: certain actions always increase one's power ... while others decrease it and even ruin us."

 

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Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te..

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The Tao of Leadership is an invaluable tool for anyone in a position of leadership. This book provides the most simple and clear advice on how to be the very best kind of leader: be faithful, trust the process, pay attention, and inspire others to become their own leaders. Heider's book is a blend of practical insight and profound wisdom, offering inspiration and advice. This book is used as a Management/Leadership training text by many Fortune 500 corporations, including IBM,..

 

The Magic of Conflict

 Great book for linking conflict to skilful use of Aikido. Gives us the " Good news"about conflict.
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Managing a Business

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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small...

 Reviewer: A reader from Jersey City, NJ United States
If I could rate this book separately for content, I'd give it 5 stars. The ideas here are so important and really "right on", and I'm glad I found this book before really getting my business off the ground. It's given me some important insights into the process of creating a business.

 

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The E-Myth Manager : Why Management..

 Reviewer: A reader from Seattle, WA USA
First of all, the E stands for Entrepreneur, not anything to do with E-commerce. I bought this book and the "E-Myth Revisited" to better understand my husband and his approach to business. He took the "E-Myth Manager" on a business trip, and immediately ordered a copy for each of his managers. The tools and concepts in this book will be the topic for his next management retreat. What did I get out of the book? A much better understanding of how to work and live with an Entrepreneur.
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Asian Business Etiquette and insights

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Thick Face, Black Heart : The Warrior...

 Chin-Ning Chu is one of the world's foremost experts on Asian business psychology, a frequent guest on "Larry King Live" and other high-profile TV shows. Now he shows how to apply ancient Chinese military wisdom to the competitive world of business today

 

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The Asian Mind Game : Unlocking the..

 

 This book, by East-West marketing consultant Chin-ning Chu, is must reading for any Westerner in business, government, or academia who negotiates in the Orient or wants to.

It is the first to reveal to Westerners the deep secrets of the Asian psyche that influence Asian behavior in business,..

 
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Fun in the office

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Totally Useless Office Skills : 75 Great...

 75 Great Ways to Play at Work. Pencil Tricks, Telephone Songs, Credit Card Buzzing, Letter Opener Swallowing, Business Card Animals, Calculator Games, Fun with Your Fax, and 65 other ways to goof off at the office. "I am most impressed to find someone with even more spare time than I have."
 
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Managing to Have Fun

 What's the best way to revolutionize the workplace? Forget restructuring and reengineering. Have a little fun!

Imaging sendig a pizza to your assistant's home after keeping her late at the office...or writing a "thank you" note to her spouse for being so understanding! It's not business as usual, but as management consultant Matt Weinstein makes clear, recognition and appreciation can play a vital role in boosting morale and productivity among stressed-out, overworked employees. Based on his success with some of America's best-known and most profitable companies, Weinstein presents a step-by-step plan for building an enthusiastic, high-performance team and offers hundreds of tried-and-true techniques for enhancing employee satisfaction and personal pride.

 

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