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Nov. 29, 2005 – Subtitled Employee Recognition that Works the books offers “simple ways to boost morale, productivity and profits.” I would put it in the category of a quick and easy read full of very practical ideas that have proven effective for me in working with my own staff. There are so many things…

Nov. 27, 2005 – This book is awesome! I mean a must read even if you only read one business book a year. Recommended to me by Val August, it was a quick and easy read that was engaging and entertaining from the front cover to the acknowledgments. The three authors are all from Deloitte Consulting and…

Nov. 25, 2005 – I was very excited to see the Amazon.com box on my porch today. Every year one of my New Year’s Resolutions is “Buy fewer books.” Every year I think I do a little better, but not significantly better. So I have ordered three books – one recommended by FastCompany and two recommended…

Nov. 25, 2005 – What is there left to say about this book? Amazon is showing 406 reviews since it was published in 2001, and I’m sure the rest of the world has said it all. I was given this book to read by our VP of Relocation probably two years ago. She said that a…

Nov. 24, 2005 – The cover story in the current issue of BusinesWeek is about Peter Drucker and is written by John A. Byrne. Until recently, Byrne was the editor-in-chief of FastCompany Magazine, where I thought he did a great job. When the magazine changed hands earlier this year, he went back to BusinessWeek, which is where he had…

Subtitled “Strategies for Earning Standing Ovations from Your Customers” this book was published in 2002. Nov. 2005 – I actually bought it at a second hand book store and still think it’s a great book despite it’s lack of chart topping popularity. I think it speaks to me most particularly because I come from the…

This book was actually a gift from one of my staff members. Jack Canfield is co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series of books. The other half of the team, Mark Victor Hansen, was the featured speaker at our agent Top Producer Retreat in Victoria, BC, last month. The term that springs to…

Nov. 2005 – This is a really great book that is probably not destined for the best seller list. It is definitly designed to educate and inform more than entertain. It’s based on a monumental amount of global research across many industries, which is in and of itself quite fascinating. But what the author has…

Nov. 2005 – It’s interesting to me how many people I have run into that have read both Blink and The Tipping Point. Malcolm Gladwell is definitely a new age guru, and an articulate one who writes engaging books that speak to a great many people. The most common reaction to Blink is that he forgot to tell us what…

Nov. 2005 – This book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was originally published in 1990. I bought it because of an article about the book in FastCompany Magazine several months ago. I took the book with me to read at our company’s manager’s retreat in September. I was reading it poolside and ran into one of my…

Nov. 2005 – There’s a reason this book has been on the NY Times Bestseller list for such a long time. It’s interesting. It takes things that are completely familiar to us and makes us look at them in an entirely different way – from the framwork of economic theory. If this was music, it…

Nov. 2005 – I’ve read some reader reviews on Amazon that talk about the repetition and reduncancy that some people found in this book. While there is some repetition, I didn’t feel that it in any way took away from the overall value of the book. Subtitled “How Winning Streaks & Losing Streaks Begin and…