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Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People into Extraordinary Performers by Erika Andersen, Portfolio, 288 Pages, $24. 95 Hardcover, December 2006, ISBN 9781591841517
Management is a well-traveled path on the road of business books. Good to Great and Now, Discover Your Strengths have captured the attention of executives for the last five years (and two permanent positions on last year's Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller List).
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Made To Stick has spent the past couple of weeks on the Wall Street Journal's Bestseller List. I think you are going to start seeing it appear on some of the other lists in the next month. The buzz for the book continues to build.
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Simple Solutions: Harness the Power of Passion and Simplicity to Get Results
By Tom Schmidt and Arnold Perl, John Wiley, 210 Pages, $22. 95 Hardcover, February 2007, ISBN 0470048182
Not every business book needs to change the world or even teach us something brand new. Here, the authors offer a new way of looking at leadership: “Most importantly…is the underlying philosophy of leadership as something (a) that can be learned; (b) that is a practical, powerful way to building relationships; and (c) that gets results.
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What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter, Hyperion, 200 Pages, $23. 95 Hardcover, January 2007, ISBN 1401301304
Marshall Goldsmith is huge in the world of executive coaching, so understand that the person this book is written to is not the mail room clerk. It is her supervisors’ supervisor.
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Cut to the Chase and 99 Other Rules to Liberate Yourself and Gain Back the Gift of Time by Stuart R. Levine, Currency/Doubleday, 180 Pages, $19. 95 Hardcover, ISBN 9780385516204
Business books range from fables to advanced project management titles.
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