Don’t Bring It to Work – Breaking the Family Patterns That Limit Success, by Sylvia Lafair, PhD
I absolutely love it when an expert in a non-business field brings their knowledge to the business world. Whether it’s a former all-star athlete turned successful businessman (ala Julius Erving), or a rehabbed musician turned stock trader (ala [...]
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New York Times – Hardcover Business Best Sellers – July 2009
Okay, how long can this thing last?
What will certainly be recorded as the most successful business book written in 2008, Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers continues to dominate the best seller rankings for the eighth consecutive month. With success like this, Outliers truly [...]
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TheManager’s Leadership Book Review
In what may become a regular feature of AskTheManager.com, we tackle the sometimes thankless task of reviewing the work of a published author. While you could argue that we’ve provided book reviews in the past with our Ten Best Leadership Books or our Ten Best Decision Making Books lists, this time it’s [...]
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Time Management Tools That Work – No Such Thing
If you’re a regular reader to this blog, you know we don’t put much stock in time management tips, tricks or techniques. We believe, like Stephen Covey, that you cannot manage time, you can only manage self. Any attempts, in fact, to manage time are just fruitless [...]
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Here are the Top 5 on the NY Times Business Hardcover Best Sellers list for August 2008. To see the complete list (and to see a great choice at Number 7 this month) follow this link.
At number 7 this month is a terrific read on the most perplexing problem in business today: execution. Specifically, Six Disciplines® [...]
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Here are the Top 5 on the NY Times Business Hardcover list for July 2008. To see the complete list (and to see a great choice that’s been at #15 for two months in a row) follow this link.
At number 15 again this month is the great read from Marshall Goldsmith called What Got You Here [...]
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