Malcolm Gladwell Blink by Malcolm Gladwell is number 4 on the Globe and Mail's list of best selling non-fiction books. What were the thoughts that came into your mind as you read that sentence? Did you form an opinion about…
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell In our short attention span society, books that continue to resonate with a reader days after being read are quite rare. Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference is one such book.…
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How Full Is Your Bucket?: Positive Strategies for Work and Life
Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D. Donald Clifton was a well-known psychologist and the Chairman of Gallup, Inc. and Tom Rath is a Global Practise Leader at The Gallup Organization and Donald Clifton’s grandson. Together they have written a…
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In Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed
Carl Honoré Feeling there was no time to read anything to his son but "One Minute Bedtime Stories" is what led Carl Honoré on his journey to re-examine the pace of his life. And what an interesting journey he takes…
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America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It
Mark SteynRoger Fisher, William Ury and Bruce Patton, suggest in their book Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In that "the ability to see the situation as the other side sees it, as difficult as it may be, is…
Breaking the Impasse
Drawing on his experience in the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, a leading mediator and his co-author provide the first jargon-free guide to consensual strategies for resolving public disputes—indispensable to citizen activists and to business and government leaders.
Blink
Just as The Tipping Point found a substantial business books audience, Blink has great appeal to anyone trying to make better decisions at their workplace, no matter their job. Just as Emotional Intelligence defined a new way of understanding business decision-making, so too will Blink revolutionize how we operate at work.
Co-opetition
Adam M. Brandenburger from the Harvard Business School, and Barry J. Nalebuff from the Yale School of Management, have developed a five-part business strategy that will revolutionize the way you play the game of business. Co-opetition is a method that goes beyond the old rules of competition and cooperation to combine the advantages of both.
Co-opetition
Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry J. Nalebuff"You don’t have to blow out the other fellow’s light to let your own light shine." –Bernand BaruchWhat is the nature of business? Is it war, where it’s not enough to succeed but others…
The Trusted Advisor
The Trusted Advisor asserts that the key to professional success is the ability to earn the trust and confidence of clients. To demonstrate the paramount importance of trust, the authors use anecdotes, experiences, and examples—successes and mistakes, their own and others’—to great effect.