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Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution

5 reviews
Tom Peters

Harper Paperbacks, 1988

A fascinating book with Peters' exuberant, jazzy style!!
This book presents a strategy for meeting the uncertainty of the current competitive markets through creating customer responsiveness, pursuing fast-paced innovation, achieving flexibility by empowering people, learning to work in an environment of change, abandoning conventional wisdom, and the reconceiving of organizational systems. This is a fascinating book that has the distinct and ...

First Aid for the Internal Medicine Boards (First Aid)

8 reviews
Tao Le, Peter Chin-Hong, ...

McGraw-Hill Medical, 2008

Very useful
This book contains a lot of excellent tables, algorithms and summaries that I could not find in any other review book. It seems to be a great companion while doing review questions. I also found this book to be an outstanding source when I prepared for work rounds to teach the interns and students. I can highly recommend this book to all residents. I wish I had it when I started my residency.

The Marvel Encyclopedia

66 reviews
Daniel Wallace, Tom Brevoort, ...

DK ADULT, 2006

A must have for any comic book fan!!
If you love comic books, you will love the Marvel Encyclopedia. If you're new to the whole comic book thing, you will LOVE the Marvel Encyclopedia! :) It's a great little reference to have!

The Brand You 50 : Or : Fifty Ways to Transform Yourself from an 'Employee' into a Brand That Shouts ...

60 reviews
Tom Peters

Knopf, 1999

Well Worth a Read.
"Take control of your career by standing out as your unique self" is the point of this book. If you're going to read anything on personal branding, start with this book as Tom was the first to ever use the term "Personal Branding." His books are always worth reading despite his annoying endless upbeat optimism, foo!ish use on end!ess !!!!!!, TOO MANY CAPS, and font mania. A short book, but ...

Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior

10 reviews
Tom Demarco, Peter Hruschka, ...

Dorset House, 2008

What to do right to make your projects work, even if it may appear to be wrong
I have been a fan of Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister for some time, their insights into the right way to manage information technology (IT) projects could be entitled, "The Way It Should Be Done." In this book, they are joined by their colleagues in the Atlantic Systems Guild to describe 86 project patterns, some of which you would enjoy being used to describe how you do things and others that you ...

Design (Tom Peters Essentials)

7 reviews
Tom Peters

DK ADULT, 2005

Finally, a business book that actually follows it's own recommendations
"Design" by Tom Peters proves what the author is preaching...It is possible to redesign your business and everything in it. The book itself, without reading a word, makes the point. Every other business book is much the same in two unfortunate ways. First, most are "one trick" ponies that have a central theme that is repeated in mind numbing variations. Second, business books are just like ...

The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm

70 reviews
Tom Kelley, Tom Peters

Doubleday Business, 2001

Watching 'The Medici Effect' at work in IDEO!
The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm by Tom Kelley The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization by Thomas Kelley Much had already been written - the good & the bad - about these two books after they were published. I do not wish to travel on the ...

Jump Start Your Business Brain: Scientific Ideas and Advice That Will Immediately Double Your Business ...

4 reviews
Doug Hall

Clerisy Press, 2005

A Book Likely to Give You a Few Good Ideas
This book is aimed at the individual in charge of marketing for a product or product line. This could be a project manager in a large company, or I would think more likely, an individual either starting his own company or running a small company. He has a handful of basic messages that he uses to define and discuss prospective products or services. Within these he uses examples from actual ...

Re-Imagine!: Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age

67 reviews
Tom Peters

DK ADULT, 2006

Re-imagine yourself.
Re-imagine! Can you imagine a world where things didn't change? Where you didn't have to re-invent yourself to stay in the game? Tom Peters' book "Re-imagine!" will help you look at yourself and your company in a different light. We all have to come to grips with the fact that the rules of business have changed and will continue to change. "Re-imagine!" helps you develop a mindset that ...

Leadership (Tom Peters Essentials)

5 reviews
Tom Peters

DK ADULT, 2005

a new series by DK, purely TP
Tom Peters is my mentor, even that i have never met him, yet he is my mentor, to see life and business in a different sprakling way. So, i am biased, and i owned all of TP books, and i visited his website very often. I belive DK and TP is a good combination. This books is so colorful it felt like a traveling guide, but this is a guide for the new Leader in the new millenium... The size is ...

The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness

54 reviews
Tom Peters

Vintage, 1999

Entrepreneurs --wake up & THINK
Peters is definitely one of my favorite authors. His insights on innovation offer me constant inspiration as I write my own newsletter - titled Byvation, which means ... By Way of Innovation. In a dramatic opening, Tom Peters says it's all about "I-N-N-O-V-A-T-I-O-N." Peters is a legendary business guru for good reason, he tells it like it is. In "Circle of Innovation" Peters talks about how ...

Secret Wars II Omnibus HC
Jim Shooter, Chris Claremont, ...

Marvel Comics, 2008

He rescued the Hulk and destroyed the New Mutants, he wrestled the Thing and made a deal with Mephisto, he created Kurse and Thundersword and a tower of gold! Doctor Strange tried to teach him; Dazzler tried to romance him! The Avengers wanted to recruit him, Daredevil to sue him, and Puma and Deadpool just wanted him dead! Hero, villain, force of nature and deus ex machina all in one: the Beyonder! For good or ill, he was one of the most ...

Trends (Tom Peters Essentials)

6 reviews
Tom Peters, Martha Barletta

DK ADULT, 2005

Why there's a Battle of the Sexes
I work in Account Planning for an ad agency and also lead a Men's Ministry for my church and I found this book extremely helpful in showing why men and women disagree on how to approach things. It's especially good when combined with David Murrow's "Why Men Don't Go To Church". When I showed a group of blue collar, non-Marketing educated, men the info in both books, I got nothing but agreement. I ...

X-Men: The Complete Onslaught Epic Volume 3 TPB (X-Men (Graphic Novels))
Peter David, Terry Kavanagh, ...

Marvel Comics, 2008

You all know about Onslaught Reborn, now see how it first got underway! Professor X hasn't been himself lately - moody, inscrutable, but the psionic armor and army of Sentinels are the real tip-offs! It'll take every super hero New York has to face the Onslaught - including not only the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and the Avengers, but forgotten stars of the nineties like Green Goblin Phil Urich, Nate Grey the X-Man, and Ben Reilly, a.k.a. ...

The Project 50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!

17 reviews
Tom Peters

Knopf, 1999

Guides you in making your work and your life matter.
When you learn to use this little book you can turn nasty little jobs into opportunities that are rewarding. Sounds like the same old words but it sure doesn't feel like "the same old" when you get it to work the first few times. It MAGIC and it makes your project fun, manageable, and they are all set up for further correction and deeper development. I used to hate making some business telephone ...

The Pursuit of Wow! Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times

27 reviews
Tom Peters

Vintage, 1994

Book Review: The Pursuit of WOW!
Tom Peters' book is entirely spirited and full of spontaneous ideas for sales. His approach is out of the box, he is not a conformist, leaving me with many ideas to start now! The book is written in many short example. Easy to digest each part. Let the concept become a part of you.

The One Page Business Plan for the Professional Consultant

5 reviews
Jim Horan

The One Page Business Plan Company, 2006

A Roadmap for Successful Consulting!
One Page Business Planning has become a critical tool for growing my consulting practice and adding value and depth to my client relationships. Now, Jim Horan has really delivered on his new book for the Professional Consultant so we can 'practice what we preach'. Especially powerful is the 10 Point Assessment exercise! Every business consultant should use One Page Business Planning as a roadmap ...

Principles of Development

4 reviews
Lewis Wolpert, Jim Smith, ...

Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

An Excellent Textbook
Wolpert's developmental biology textbook is evidently an excellent text in its field. The authors are all well recognized in thier research areas. The organization of the text is also very well written. The summary of the concept presented at the end of each chapter is helpful. The figures presented througout the text are clear and the language used to explain them is simple but very ...

Talent (Tom Peters Essentials)

5 reviews
Tom Peters

DK ADULT, 2005

The latest from the Guru
This new book focuses tightly on one of Tom's big areas - Talent. How do you make the best people want to work for you? And how do you get the most out of them? And how do you improve yourself? Tom's very much in the Free Agent Nation camp, expecting all of us to be individual enteprenuers, even if we work for Big Inc. He also believe that we don't have a choice - the new world is forcing it ...

Abolishing Performance Appraisals: Why They Backfire and What to Do Instead

26 reviews
Tom Coens, Mary Jenkins

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2002

A Critical Step for a Performance-Driven Organization
This book becomes more relevant every year! For organizations that want responsible employees, it challenges leadership to consider the assumptions that drive traditional HR performance appraisal processes - most importantly those arising from the common `parental' or `patriarchy' model of leadership and organizational development. In this research-based analysis of the multiple purposes of ...

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