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Energy Medicine for Women: Aligning Your Body's Energies to Boost Your Health and Vitality 7 reviews
Donna Eden, David Feinstein
Tarcher, 2008
a gem
I can only echo the other reviewers - this book is a gem. I even like it a little better than her earlier work, Energy Medicine, because it is more concise. Eden also cites books written recently with scientific backup for what subtle energies are and how they function. That helps me because although I know this stuff works, I also have the heart of a skeptic. As someone who is very dissatisfied ...
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Leading Talents Leading Teams: Aligning People, Passions and Positions for Maximum Performance3 reviews
Lee Ellis
Northfield Publishing, 2003
Hard hitting personal Leadership growth strategies
This book is fantastic!!! It has shone a new light on my struggles... with pinpoint accuracy. Detailed work is the most challenging for me. As a result of this insightful book - I repeat the "engaging" persons mantra often - "Focus, focus, focus" "No, No, No" & "Prioritise, Prioritise, Prioritise". It has also provided me the best framework / paradigm I have yet to come across on leadership ...
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Business Rules and Information Systems: Aligning IT with Business Goals (Unisys Series)3 reviews
Tony Morgan
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002
Best introductory text on the subject
This book introduces the concept and mechanics of business rules, and is essential reading for anyone involved in eliciting and writing requirements, or developing specifications. I want to disclose that I am a staunch advocate of business rules, so take this into consideration as you read this review. This is one of two books on the subject. The other book, Business Rules Applied by Barbara ...
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The Talent Solution: Aligning Strategy and People to Achieve Extraordinary Results11 reviews
Edward L. Gubman
McGraw-Hill, 1998
"Improving Business Results with People"
"This book is about why it's essential to connect strategy and people to manage talent, and more importantly, how to do it. It rests on three key concepts: alignment, engagement, and measurement. Alignment means pointing people in the right direction. Engagement means fostering commitment to your basic purpose and direction. Measurement means providing connected and balanced ways for your ...
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Recognizing and Rewarding Employees7 reviews
R. Brayton Bowen
McGraw-Hill, 2000
You just can't give raises every week! Find Something else!
I have long believed that for the most part your company pay plan is competitive within your industry. Then by definition, you are getting paid what you are worth in your environment. As a manager/supervisor that also means that you can not reward with money. To become successful leader, your had better look in other directions. My suggestion is using Mr. Brayton's Recognizing and Rewarding ...
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Profit Mapping: A Tool for Aligning Operations with Future Profit and Performance4 reviews
Anil Menawat, Adam Garfein
McGraw-Hill, 2006
The Cartology of ROI
Anil Menawat and Adam Garfein provide in this brilliant volume "a tool for aligning operations with future profit and performance." To their credit, they explain with meticulous care how to drive operational excellence through profit mapping to create a sustainable edge which they correctly characterize as "the management roller coaster." In this context, I am reminded of the familiar assertion ...
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Advancing The Witches' Craft: Aligning Your Magical Spirit Through Meditation, Exploration And Initiation Of ...8 reviews
Lord Foxglove
New Page Books, 2005
Many more steps along the path ...
I am a witch who has been traveling down the path for a while now and I've read many books about witchcraft. "Advancing the Witches' Craft" is refreshing because the author (Lord Foxglove) assumes that the reader is somewhat advanced in their knowledge. For instance, he does not instruct you on how to build a circle or why you need to create one but gets right on to how to build a better and ...
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Mass Career Customization: Aligning the Workplace With Today's Nontraditional Workforce3 reviews
Cathleen Benko, Anne Weisberg
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
Excruciatingly Relevant
An excellent book that squarely confronts a major challenge that businesses face today - how to address the core issue of retaining top talent. The book starts by outlining the six main demographic and cultural trends that are impacting the workforce. In a nutshell, the retirement of the baby boomer "bulge" cannot be replaced by the much smaller generations that follow (Gen X, Gen Y). In ...
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Optimizing Corporate Portfolio Management: Aligning Investment Proposals with Organizational Strategy23 reviews
Anand Sanwal
Wiley, 2007
Great resource for IT Portfolio Management & Project Portfolio Management
I lead my company's IT portfolio management effort, and this is one of the most well-written strategy books I've ever come across. It does an amazingly good job of demystifying what can be a complex topic.
Major pros of the book:
- No jargon, acronyms and generally useless platitudes and overgeneralized frameworks like I've seen in other books on the topic. Straightforward, conversational ...
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Intentional Integrity: Aligning Your Life With God's Values5 reviews
Millard N. MacAdam
Broadman & Holman Pub, 1996
This book is full of "how to tools" for building your life!
I have always been perplexed by the amount of time, resources and energy that we tend to dedicate to our professions and how many times God and our most important ministry - our families, seem to get our leftovers. If you are serious about your life, Intentional Integrity is more than a must read, it is a must do! Mac's life application workbook will give you the tools to strategically ...
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Strategic Business Partner: Aligning People Strategies with Business Goals2 reviews
Dana Gaines Robinson, James C Robinson
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2005
The HR pro as business partner
Dana Gaines and James C. Robinson's STRATEGIC BUSINESS PARTNER: ALIGNING PEOPLE STRATEGIES WITH BUSINESS GOALS is the first book to consider the human resource professional's importance in the business partner role. Major SBP responsibilities elevate the HR person to that of strategic partner, re-defining the role and adding an extra dimension of accountability into the mix. Chapters explore and ...
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A Risk Management Approach to Business Continuity: Aligning Business Continuity with Corporate Governance2 reviews
Julia Graham, David Kaye
Rothstein Associates Inc., 2006
A great book to understand the BCM in light of Risk Management
I have chosen this book from the list of Business Continuity Institute recommended literature. I cannot say it was a well-informed choice. However I did not regret it even a single bit. One thing that instantly attracted me was the link between Business Continuity and Risk Management in its heading.
The book was true to its heading.
Pros:
- The book is very well-structured
- The book is ...
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Aligning Incentives, Information, and Choice: How to Optimize Health and Human Capital Performance2 reviews
Wendy D. Lynch
Health as Human Capital Foundation, 2008
An informed and informative history of an American family and an American company
The "Jiffy" brand is a familiar brand to every housewife in America. What began almost 80 years ago in the kitchen of Mabel Holmes as she set about creating a biscuit mix so easy that even 'a man could do it', grew into a multi-million dollar commercial enterprise based on America's first packaged and prepared baking mix. "Jiffy: A Family Tradition - Mixing Business and Old-Fashioned Values" is ...
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Aligning IEPs to Academic Standards1 review
Ginevra Courtade-Little; Diane M Browder
Attainment Company, Inc, 2005
Aligning IEPs to Academic Standards
With the new federal regulation, No Child Left Behind, it is important that special education teachers align their students' IEPs to the standard course of study. This book has helped me create individual goals that accomplish just that. I really love this book.
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Measuring What Matters: Simplified Tools for Aligning Teams and Their Stakeholders3 reviews
Rod Napier, Rich McDaniel
Davies-Black Publishing, 2006
Compelling and Powerful Stuff
I reviewed this book before it was published and loved it - the second time around it got even better! The case studies and humor make what could be a very dry subject, compelling, interesting, fun, and actually useable by mere mortals! I read it cover to cover - hard to put down. I can't remember when that ever happened with a management book!
The best part for me is the practicality and ...
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Just Good Business: The Strategic Guide to Aligning Corporate Responsibility and Brand2 reviews
Kellie A McElhaney
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2008
Taking the next step with corporate social responsibility
Kellie McElhaney has done the world of business a great service by providing leaders with a well-written, actionable guide to branding their corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts. There have been plenty of books extolling the many benefits to companies of pursuing CSR. Such companies can expect happier, more engaged and productive employees, more loyal customers and clients, and a ...
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Practical Strategy: Aligning Business and Information Technology2 reviews
Jr., Rupert A. Hayles
Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 2005
What Corporate America must read.,
I found this book to be very educational and presented where even the common foe could read. As an Independent Consultant and working in many of today's top Corporations, this book is what Managers to top Executives should read if they need to know how to strategically plan their businesses. I like the way this book explains the how's, the whys and more important the benefits to planning and ...
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Aligning Technology for Best Business Results1 review
Kathleen Riley, Peter Marks
Design Insight Pubns, 1995
The book every CAD/CAM Sys.Mgr. should read...
It is an excellent book to help any business to trace its CAD/CAM strategic path. It shows very interesting practices to take care of, and how to's techniques when making your CAD/CAM long term strategic decision.
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IMPLEMENTING THE IT BALANCED SCORECARD: Aligning IT with Corporate Strategy2 reviews
Jessica Keyes
Auerbach Publications, 2005
Just what I needed
I was looking for a book to assist in implementing the scorecard approach in my IT shop. Most books on the subject were too generic - too focused on business and not on IT. The Keyes book is very specific to IT. It thoroughly explained the topic and was loaded with useful measures I could use right away.
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Desiring God's Will: Aligning Our Hearts With The Heart Of God2 reviews
David G. Benner
InterVarsity Press, 2005
Knowing God's will
David Benner states in his epilogue that there is a difference between doing the right 'thing' and following the right 'way'. It is by going the right way that our will is most aligned with God's will for us - it is not something that is simply reducible to a list of things to do, or even a figuring out for particular decisions 'What would Jesus do?' This might have a component in the process, ...
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