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Fast Company’s Greatest Hits: Ten Years of the Most Innovative Ideas in Business Edited by Mark N. Vamos and David Lidsky Fast Company has been called the hottest business magazine of the past decade. It’s been referred to as the Fortune Magazine of today’s generation. In my travels I have found only two, almost opposite,…

The 3 Keys to Empowerment: Release the Power Within People for Astonishing Results by Ken Blanchard, John P. Carlos, and Alan Randolph Written in an easily accessible Q & A format, this book closely examines and expands on the three keys to empowerment originally presented in Empowerment Takes More than a Minute—sharing information with everyone, creating…

Executive Warfare: 10 Rules of Engagement for Winning Your War for Success by David F. D’Alessandro and Michele Owens This book was recommended to me by a long-time colleague who knew I would enjoy it. He was indeed correct. However, he also voiced his opinion that I probably wouldn’t want to review it for our…

The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey It was just a matter of time … If you read The Seven Habits of Highly-Effective People, as well over 15 million readers worldwide have done, you had to know that Stephen Covey would someday, inevitably, give us The 8th Habit. In fact, most…

Mission Possible by Ken Blanchard and Terry Waghorn This book was written for all living in organizations today who are dealing with the reality of having to improve their present operation and design their future at the same time. The authors have a message for you: Your organization is dying! To stay alive in the short…

Apples Are Square: Thinking Differently About Leadership by Dr. Susan Smith Kuczmarski and Thomas Kuczmarski This is one of those publications that grab you at the cover. Come on, the title Apples Are Square tickles your intrigue just a bit now, doesn’t it? And who doesn’t want to think differently about leadership? If the book…