Fun Works: Creating Places Where People Love to Work by Leslie Yerkes Books on this subject have been around for decades. I have many of them on my own bookshelves and have seldom referred to any of them in the spirit of research, study or bench marking. I’m afraid you’d hear similar remarks from the…
Be the Leader: Make the Difference by Paula B. Thornton The author of this “manual for leaders” speaks not from theory and research alone. Paul B. Thornton is a consultant, trainer, and speaker specializing in the areas of management, leadership and team building. He has long assisted organizations in the selection and development of leaders…
The War for Talent by Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod For the longest time, you had to search for a book that dealt with the subject of attracting, developing, motivating, and retaining talent. Now it seems as though we’re inundated with books on the subject. There’s obviously a reason for this trend. There’s…
The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell by Oren Harari Here’s a book that caught me totally off guard and turned out to be much different than I had expected. I must admit that I was drawn to it because I had the opportunity to meet Colin Powell in person at a reception following one of…
Survival Is Not Enough: Why Smart Companies Abandon Worry and Embrace Change by Seth Godin This author is a former Yahoo executive, a renowned speaker, a contributing editor to Fast Company and author of Unleashing the Ideavirus which has been downloaded more than a million times, making it the most popular ebook ever. He’s been…
How to Succeed in Business Without Working So Damn Hard by Robert Kriegel Here’s an author who grabs you with his titles and holds you with his content. Remember his previous best sellers, Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers and If it Ain’t Broke … Break It!? Bob Kriegel has the uncanny ability of creating…
Whale Done!: The Power of Positive Relationships by Ken Blanchard This talented author, speaker and business consultant possesses a very unique God-given gift, as a storyteller, for making the seemingly complex easy to understand. He has done exactly that in the millions of books he has sold worldwide in more than 25 languages. When Ken…
50 Companies That Changed the World by Howard Rothman This book is an excellent companion piece for any number of today’s current business magazines or newspapers trying to make sense of our current business climate. Over the past 200 years, a number of companies, both large and small, have made a substantial impact on our…
The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants by John C. Maxwell He’s b-a-c-k-k-k-k-k! If Maxwell wrote it—you should read it! He’s that darn good! Known as America’s expert on leadership, John C. Maxwell is founder of The INJOY Group, an organization dedicated to helping people maximize…