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Achieve Brand Integrity: Ten Truths You Must Know to Enhance Employee Performance and Increase Company Profits 32 reviews
Gregg Lederman
B@W Press, 2007
Incredible book!!! Only wish I had it sooner..
Gregg Lederman lives five years in the future, so if you want to know how to motivate your employees and have more profitable growth in your company, just ask him.
Lederman sets it all out so well. This is a huge contribution that if used will empower any business of any size to distill brand integrity in their employees. This book is easy to read and makes it all so easy to understand. I ...
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Cold Eyes48 reviews
Romina Wilcox
Xlibris Corporation, 2007
What a great read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am by no means a professional writer, I just love to read. I got "Cold Eyes" a while ago and was finally able to read it. I read the book in one sitting because I simply could not put it down. Romina Wilcox has a way of taking you on a journey. It starts off slow and easy then goes all twisty-turney on you. The plot twists were wicked and fun and I enjoyed the novel very much. I found ...
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Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace46 reviews
Ricardo Semler
Grand Central Publishing, 1995
An unorthodox approach to running a business
Ricardo Semler calls himself a maverick, but he's actually a visionary. Semler, now 49, was way ahead of the curve 25 years ago when he radically altered the structure and philosophy of his father's company, Semco. Long before most businesses acknowledged that employees were thinking, feeling human beings and not timecard-punching robots, Semler rebuilt the infrastructure at Semco, eliminating ...
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Mobbing: Emotional Abuse in the American Workplace31 reviews
Noa Davenport, Ruth D. Schwartz, ...
Civil Society Publishing, 1999
psychological harassment
Before my experience of becoming a victim of "mobbing", I had never heard of this word. I've had to deal with a bully or two in the past, and the usual work pressures caused by demanding bosses and strict deadlines. But nothing prepared me for the experience of being mobbed. It was passive aggressive style mobbing. This book was a great resource for myself, though it made me sad that some ...
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Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire42 reviews
James Wallace, Jim Erickson
Collins Business, 1993
Intense, highly relevant
Delightful book. Its one flaw is its addictiveness, I couldn't put it down which did cost me sleep (I'm an IT professional with an entrepreneur spirit- your results may vary).
The Microsoft/Gates biography is impeccable in its wealth of interesting details and engaging story-telling.
Bill Gates is a fantastic decision maker. He would be as successful selling water or space suits, he just ...
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Trak Da Prey Or U R Da Prey42 reviews
HunterVillager Inc.
Huntervillager, Inc., 2000
Corp. Greed And Disfunctional Management
This book saw it coming.It was well ahead of it's time. Hundreds of my fellow employess were able to avoid the recent corporate incompetence and mismanagement by implementing the cultural changes detailed in the book. A must read to adapt to the new business ethics for running a sucessful company.
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The MouseDriver Chronicles101 reviews
John Lusk, Kyle Harrison
Basic Books, 2002
Greg Fisher
The Mousedriver Chronicles is the story of 2 Wharton MBA's who take a business plan developed on their entrepreneurship course at Wharton and decide to make a go of it. In 1999 they turn away high paying jobs at investment banks and over funded dot.com startups to go it alone.
Their idea: to make and sell a computer mouse that looks like the head of a golf driver.
They fund the venture ...
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Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewery36 reviews
Steve Hindy, Tom Potter
Wiley, 2005
A very good read
By nature, I am not a "reader"... I have a large stack of books that I've picked up over the years to pacify me while traveling. Most still have their respective airline ticket stubs safely marking the spot where I left off reading. So yes, it's a tad ironic that I'm now leaving a book review here... However, I read this cover-to-cover in two (long) evenings (that alone will tell anyone that ...
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Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line45 reviews
Ben Hamper
Grand Central Publishing, 1992
If you ever wondered why factory workers drink, read this....
The endless monotony and idiot bosses drive anybody with an IQ above their shoe size to do something to kill the thought that, if they're lucky, they only have 30 more years of mind numbing drudgery to go before they can retire. I'm not saying alcohol abuse is the proper outlet, but it does seem to be the most common and most convenient. Good book, excellent portrayal of what exactly "blue ...
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The Pampered Chef: The Story Behind the Creation of One of Today's Most Beloved Companies41 reviews
Random House Audio, 2005
Insights on how the company expanded and handled its challenges
In 1980 author Doris Christopher, former home economist and teacher, wanted to return to the workforce after raising her children: she began selling high-quality kitchen tools through cooking demonstrations and began her company, The Pampered Chef, from her basement. Twenty-five years later it's a corporation specializing in kitchen shows - and The Pampered Chef: The Story Of One Of America's ...
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The Secret Life of the Corporate Jester: A Fresh Perspective on Organizational Leadership, Culture and ...30 reviews
David T. Riveness
Jardin Publishing, 2006
Excellent User-Friendly Book on Leading Change
Dave Riveness did a great job with 'The Secret Life of the Corporate Jester'. I read it cover-to-cover on a flight and couldn't put it down. The combination of Greek mythology and lessons for organizational change was a very interesting idea, and Dave's writing was crisp, clear and accessible. All in all, this is a great read on how to transform an organizational culture from the inside-out.
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Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm29 reviews
Select Books, 2002
Most important book around for going from $1million to $50million
Bring organization to your organization. Hold people accountable for their work. These are some of the biggest problems I hear over and over from entrepreneurs who have emerged from the start-up phase and are trying to grow their business into a profitable machine. This book is an easy read and gives you all the tools you need. A must have for anyone looking to take their business beyond ...
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The Houses That Sears Built; Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Sears Catalog Homes28 reviews
Rosemary Thornton
Gentle Beam Publications, 2002
Renewed Interest
I just finished reading The Houses That Sears Built. I was unable to put it down. I grew up in a Sears house, but I did not know anything about them until I read this book. It is obvious that the author did her homework while researching the subject.
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Portraits of Success: 9 Keys to Sustaining Value in Any Business30 reviews
James Olan Hutcheson
Dearborn Trade, 2002
A story - not a simple business book
A great book to read especially if you are interested in building a great company.
I've done the leadership thing at Toastmasters. I've attended the 12-class Dale Carnegie Course. I've read a lot of books on leadership, and I've counseled clients at SCORE.org counseling sessions on leadership. What I've garnered from all of this on the subject of starting a business and doing it as a leader is ...
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Built for Growth: Expanding Your Business Around the Corner or Across the Globe25 reviews
Arthur Rubinfeld, Collins Hemingway
Wharton School Publishing, 2005
A roadmap for retail strategy
?Who doesn?t want to run his own business? Who doesn?t want to have her own store? If you?re young, you think about it from time to time. If you?re older, you wish you had opened that little shop before the kids came ? or you plan to open it when you retire. We all want to control our destiny. We all want to express our creativity. We all want to build something that will last. But how do you ...
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How'd You Score That Gig?: A Guide to the Coolest Jobs-and How to Get Them24 reviews
Alexandra Levit
Ballantine Books, 2008
Excellent guide to figuring out your path in life when it comes to careers...
One of the toughest times in life is getting to that stage where you're expected to go out on your own and make a living, but yet you don't have a clue as to what your dream job would be (or at least a *realistic* dream job). Alexandra Levit helps to cut through some of that confusion in her book How'd You Score That Gig?: A Guide to the Coolest Jobs-and How to Get Them. Using this book as a ...
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Transformational Change29 reviews
Thomas K. Wentz
Corporate Performance Systems, 1999
This is not more buzz words from a consultant
I have read Tom's book twice. The second time very carefully because I wanted to be sure that I was not being seduced by the obvious. I was not. This is an addition to the literature on leading change. Many of the terms are familiar but Tom has brought them together in a way that creates a new picture of the forces that change -- and don't change -- business. I have become somewhat ...
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Leadership and Golf (creating Organizational Alignment) SWING to BALANCE26 reviews
Thomas K Wentz, William S Wentz
Corporate Performance Systems, 2002
Everyone is Important
Tom's book is a must read for all who manage more than one person.
Great companies are built by those who lead by example and teach others how to lead. Swing To Balance teaches that those who feel they can do it all will do more, more easily and better, if they help others to succeed. The game of golf is THE metaphor for life!!
This book is well written and and will make any airplane trip ...
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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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Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset, Second Edition23 reviews
Aswath Damodaran
Wiley, 2002
Comprehensive View of Investment Valuation
An overall excellnet text on valuing any asset. The author does a wonderful job of highighting the only 3 rational ways to value any asset: discounted cash flows, relative valuation, and the options pricing model. This book may help you consider the value of assets using all 3 methods to arrive at a true valuation for your purchase or divestment.
A must have for anyone who values assests.
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