Book Reviews
Email and a Hamster Revolution
Email overwhelms us daily. Junk email, jokes, family stories, and legitimate business email flood our inboxes every day, overnight and through our weekends. Authors Mike Song, Vicki Halsey, and Tim Bu ... more
Collaboration Skills for Everyday Work
Brainstorming, collaboration, problem-solving, dialogue, and even command-and-control are all processes for interacting with people. Here’s a great book for building your collaboration skills: Radical ... more
“The 2010 Meltdown”
If you’ve ever wondered how you’ll fill the job opening you have today, consider how you’ll fill the jobs you’ll need filled in 2010. Author of more than a dozen books on workplace skills and educatio ... more
Become a Confident Executive
Taking on a new position requires letting go of some ways of doing things and picking up some new approaches according to The Next Level author Scott Eblin. Author Eblin’s credentials include working ... more
Figure Out What People Want!
You may remember that “What Women Want” was the title of a 2000 comedy that focused on figuring out what women want so that an advertising company can make more sales. Now, for your 2007 management sk ... more
Business Reading Worth Reading
When you want new approaches for growing your business or for managing an organization, read a book about how others do business. The following books are from my “have read and worth reading” business ... more
Answering Your Call – Finding your purpose
Dozens of stories over the last decade have included lines about quitting a job and finding real meaning and purpose in something else. We’re no longer in an economic environment where quitting work s ... more
Persuading to get what you want
Is homework already piling up at your house? Kids are back into the swing of school and adult fall schedules are fitting into place. Some of the season’s challenges are getting kids to do their homewo ... more
Where is all the brain-power going?
Another good-read, this one brings to light the brain-power challenges and opportunities around the world. David Heenan’s Flight Capital (Davies-Black, October 2005) suggests that we have plenty of wo ... more
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