The New York Times bestseller by Kris Carr, author of the best-selling Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips and Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor, takes on the crazy sexy subject of what and how we eat, drink, and think. Infused with Carr’s signature sass, wit and advice-from-the-trenches style, Crazy Sexy Diet is a beautifully illustrated resource that puts you on the fast track to vibrant health, happiness […]
Emotional Intelligence
– Daniel Goleman
June 8, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.” Emotional intelligence (EQ) is the ability to monitor one’s […]
Execution
– Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
June 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Execution may very well be the best business book of the year, and one of the most useful to have come around in a long time. This smart and pithy book focuses on a simple though vexing challenge: How can the leaders of an organization exhort their people to deliver on the most important goals?….It’s rare to […]
The Story Factor
– Annette Simmons
June 6, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Annette Simmons is founder of Group Process Consulting, specializing in helping organizations build more collaborative behaviors for bottom-line results. A popular speaker, community activist, and author of Territorial Games and A Safe Place for Dangerous Truths, she lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. [From: Amazon.com] The new material for this revised edition offers an expanded case study of storytelling in action […]
Delivering Happiness
– Tony Hsieh
June 5, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Delivering Happiness (2010) is a book by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. It details his life as an entrepreneur, with emphasis on the founding of Link Exchange and Zappos. In 2009, Hsieh began writing Delivering Happiness over Labor Day in Lake Tahoe. He wrote most of the book stream of consciousness, often completing 3,000 word chunks a day that he would send to his editor in New York. While writing […]
Think and Grow Rich
– Napoleon Hill
June 4, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Think and Grow Rich is a 1937 motivational personal development and self-help book by Napoleon Hill and inspired by a suggestion from Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie. While the title implies that this book deals with how to get rich, the author explains that the philosophy taught in the book can be used to help people succeed in all lines of work and to […]
The Age of Unreason
– Charles Handy
June 2, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The companies that survive longest are the one’s that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.” Handy’s 1989 book made a powerful case for what might then […]
Women, Lean in …to prosper
– Sheryl Sandberg
June 1, 2014 By
From TED.com Sheryl Sandberg admits she was terrified to step onto the TED stage in 2010 — because she was going to talk, for the first time, about the lonely experience of being a woman in the top tiers of business. Millions of views (and a best-selling book) later, the Facebook COO talks with the woman who […]
Secrets of Closing the Sale
– Zig Ziglar
May 31, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Zig Ziglar, a talented author and speaker, has traveled over five million miles and worked with clients and corporations of all sizes, from Fortune 500 companies to churches, schools, and non-profit associations. He has written twenty-one books on personal growth, leadership, sales, faith, and success, nine of which have been bestsellers. He lives in Carrollton, […]
On Becoming a Leader
– Warren Bennis
May 30, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Managers do things right. Leaders do the right thing.” Leadership guru Warren Bennis’s guide to honing your inner leader tends to read more like a self-help book than a business tutorial. Bennis’s now classic take on the leadership conundrum calls the dearth of effective leaders a “societal disease” characterized by shortsighted thinking and a lack […]
