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It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff

100 reviews
Peter Walsh

Free Press, 2007

A life-changing book
Fun to read, inspiring, practical--buy this book, read it, and live it. Walsh creates a vision of what your life could be like without all the clutter. After reading his book, I gave my house a long overdue decluttering. His book fired me up so quickly that I couldn't wait to get started. Highly recommended!

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

420 reviews
David Allen

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002

get it together
and this book will organize your life. make the time as a priority, and it's a life-changer - for the good. consistency is the key, though. if not on top of weekly reviews, you just fall back to the natural state of disorder. if you're committed, you'll fly.

Stone Cold

127 reviews
David Baldacci

Grand Central Publishing, 2007

A Rip-roaring Thriller
Fete of Death "Stone Cold" is a fast-paced conspiracy thriller starring the shadowy CIA hit man Oliver Stone, not to be confused with the eponymous conspiracy-minded movie director of "JFK." Men involved in Stone's unsavory and violent past are being picked off by a ruthless assassin. Stone, with good reason, begins to fear for his own life. It is obvious to him that someone out there, ...

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

78 reviews
Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams

Portfolio Hardcover, 2008

this book made me more creative
what a great book. it's one of those books, like daniel pink's a whole new mind, or some of seth godin's books and patrick lencioni's books, that constantly had my brain thinking about changes we could/should make to the company i lead. seriously, like dozens (hundreds?) of ideas. maybe a few of them will actually get implemented! the book is about how a web 2.0/wiki culture is changing our ...

Driven To Distraction : Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through ...

129 reviews
Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey

Touchstone, 1995

Mr Barrett
I have two nephews with ADD/ADHD and possibly more undiagnosed relatives which made me curious that maybe I had ADD/ADHD. I read this book and I really related to a lot of the stories and it gave me hope that there could be help for me. I wasn't really a problem student, just got in trouble often and had problems reading but I excelled at math and science (although teachers said I was an ...

Robert's Rules Of Order Newly Revised In Brief (Roberts Rules of Order (in Brief))

36 reviews
Henry M. III Robert, William J. Evans, ...

Da Capo Press, 2004

Roberts Rules of Order
I am the chair of the Classified Staff Council on a very large University Campus. We use this book as a guideline for our meetings and events. I purchase them for each memeber to review if they have questions. EXCELLENT

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

15 reviews
Clay Shirky

Penguin Press HC, The, 2008

Hey Clay, WAZZZZZAAA?
Hey Clay, WAZZZZZZZZAAA? I loved the book. Many thanks to Vanessa, Scott and Janet for the work they do. And now for my contribution-- and my only post on Amazon (Farzad a la Mode) I thought your book was thought provoking all the way to the end. You respected the reader enough not to do what so many authors do today, which is to keep repeating the same thing over and over again in ...

The Miracle at Speedy Motors: The New Novel in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series (No. 1 Ladies' ...

55 reviews
Alexander Mccall Smith

Pantheon, 2008

Prizes little-noticed
We're all familiar with the big miracles: the little child as sole survivor of an airplane crash or the earthquake victim pulled alive from rubble a week after the event. Precious Ramotswe, however, is sensitive to the other kind, the little miracles with long-term meaning for family affairs. Founder of The Number One Ladies Detective Agency of Gabarone, Botswana, Precious has been rather ...

Leading Change

73 reviews
John P. Kotter

Harvard Business School Press, 1996

A MUST HAVE for your leadership library
Very well written book and easy to read and follow. Since change is a modern requirement for any business, it simply makes sense to focus in on what it takes to provide the necessary leadership to do so.

Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great

60 reviews
Jim Collins

HarperCollins, 2005

Excellent companion addressing not-for-profits' unique needs
Jim Collins is the author of "Good to Great," an influential business and leadership book. In the time since the publication of the book, Collins realized that there exist points of disconnect within the book for leaders of not-for-profit agencies (e.g. churches, local charitable organizations, groups that exist for specific causes like disease eradication or the advancement of art). In an ...

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

33 reviews
Paulo Freire

Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000

Change your mind
This is a profound little book that makes a cogent argument for effective change in individual and social thought processes. It will change the way you think about oppression and what it actually is for those who are oppressed. This is a book for everyone but especially for those who want to make a change for the better in themselves and the society at large. A thought provoking and ...

Teaching With Love and Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom

44 reviews
Jim Fay, David Funk

Love & Logic Press, 1995

A wealth of ideas
I haven't finished reading this book and I already have a ton of new ideas. The premise is that you establish a relationship with your students where they can choose for themselves how to behave properly in the classroom. We must be fair with our consequences, hearty in praise, and rather than making demands, we must teach students to make good decisions. They won't have someone to make demands ...

This Year I Will...: How to Finally Change a Habit, Keep a Resolution, or Make a Dream Come True

14 reviews
M. J. Ryan

Broadway, 2006

This Year I Will...
I just finished reading this little book and I have to say I was so completely surprised. It was a fun read with so much wisdom and practical information. I found myself underlining and highlighting because there were so many great gems in this book. Anyone trying to change a habit, start a new one, or just to get inspired, I highly recommend this book. M.J. Ryan is an excellent writer who writes ...

Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits

14 reviews
Leslie Crutchfield, Heather McLeod Grant

Jossey-Bass, 2007

Twelve High-Impact "Starfish"
After completing five years of rigorous and extensive research on 1,435 "Fortune 500" companies during a 30-year period (1965-1995), Jim Collins and his associates selected only eleven that met their admittedly "very tough standards" for greatness. (Note: Collins also wrote Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great, published four years later.) Leslie ...

Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business

77 reviews
Patrick M. Lencioni

Jossey-Bass, 2004

Good tips
This is one of the most practical books I've ever read. He does a great job of working you to the point and the thoughts behind his ideas. We've used this concepts a lot and it has greatly improved our meetings and communication.

Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

20 reviews
Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw

Zondervan, 2008

Powerful book
Let me just say that the book is a powerhouse. The book covers a lot of ground in relatively little text (it seems long but the font is huge and there are illustrations all over the place). Someone made the decision that the book should be wildly decorative, which I actually thought worked well with the content, because it's definitely not meant to be chewed over academically - rather the book ...

Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership

22 reviews
Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal

Jossey-Bass, 2003

Valuable book, also for social sector administrators
My prof used it as a required text in the course I took. It's great! Through this book I can understand why things didn't work at my previous work experience at a higher ed. institution. I definitely recommend the book to everyone, including those who work at the social sectors as you'll understand why you need to use politics, pay attention to human resource and organization structure!

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

25 reviews
Peter M. Senge

Doubleday Business, 2006

A 21st Century Management book you must read
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R27V9KI0E4L3SM This video explains why you can't afford not to read this book. The video will take you over the 5 part of the book which will give you an an idea if whether or not this books is for you. Systems Theory is a concept has been emerging for the last century in the western civilization. It is not very easy to explain certain concepts ...

Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the ...

43 reviews
Paul Hawken

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008

A message of hope for the future
It almost always happens, when I speak in telephone conferences with university classes or with larger groups, that someone will ask if I have hope for the future and, if so, why. My answer has always been an intuitive one, the intuition being that in the last fifteen years or so awareness of the perils we face in the immediate future has expanded explosively-and that this in itself provides ...

ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life

79 reviews
Judith Kolberg, Kathleen Nadeau

Routledge, 2002

The top organization book for ADD
I bought over 10 books on ADD and organizing, and only kept two: this one and 10 Simple Solutions to Adult ADD. This book's format and prose was written with ADD readers in mind, and the solutions are spot-on. Other books had overly simplistic or complicated ideas that seemed absurd or impossible. This book's ideas are very specific to the way an ADDer's brain works. I refer to it time and ...

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