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The Enneagram in Love & Work : Understanding
Your Intimate & Business RelationshipsAuthor: Helen Palmer Book path: www.amazon.com Harper Collins The Enneagram is a psychological/spiritual model of ancient origins and great for personal insight on some of the less savoury parts of our complex selves |
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Thick Face, Black Heart : The Path to
Thriving, Winning, and Succeeding Author: Chin-Ning Chu Book path: www.amazon.com Fawcett Columbine A confronting read on how to negotiate and do business with people from Asian cultures |
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Training with NLPAuthor: Joseph O'Conner & John Seymour Thorsons Book path: www.amazon.com Good introduction to NLP applications |
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Lateral Thinking : Creativity Step-By-StepAuthor: Edward De Bono Fontana Book path: www.amazon.com De Bono has some really valuable thinking tools - it is essentially an application of his Lateral Thinking theory into the context of creativity. |
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The Art of Managing PeopleAuthor: P.H. Hunsaker & A.J. Alessandra Simon & Shuster Book path: www.amazon.com Really practical and useful management resource with some good ides and exercises that you could employ in a number of contexts. |
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Gifts DifferingAuthor: Isabel Briggs Myer CPP Pres Book path: www.amazon.com A superb book on Myers Briggs Type Indicator history and applications. |
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Leaves Before the WindAuthor: Bretto, DeLozier, Grinder & Topel GDA Press Book Path: www.amazon.com An important book on NLP - very practical and insightful by some of the leading developers of this controversial 'neuroscience' (for want of a better term). |
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| Title: The
Portable Coach Author: Thomas J. Leonard Isn't it time you stopped grasping for success and started attracting it? Thomas J. Leonard is the father of personal coaching, an explosively growing movement highlighted by recent features in Newsweek,The Wall Street Journal,The New York Times,The London Times,New Age Journal, and featured on NBC, CBS, and CNN. He is also the founder of Coach University, a virtual university that has trained thousands of personal coaches in thirty countries. Here is Leonard's 28-step Principles of Attraction program -- an exciting, profoundly transformational system that will reorient your approach to life and help you attract success, happiness, and fulfilment as surely as a magnet draws steel. |
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The Portable Coach: 28 Surefire Strategies
for Business and Personal SuccessAuthor: Thomas J. Leonard Price: $17.50 US Book type: print Affiliate: Amazon Book path: www.amazon.com |
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Understand MeAuthor: David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates Price: $11.95 US Book type: print Affiliate: Amazon Book path: www.amazon.com If you've ever wanted to change your mate, your coworkers, or a family member, then "Put down your chisel," advise David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates in this book of personality types. We are different for a reason, and that reason is probably more good than bad. For anyone acquainted with the ubiquitous Myers-Briggs personality test, Please Understand Me will be familiar territory--but gone over with a fine-toothed comb. And for the uninitiated, this book will be a quick introduction to personality typing the Myers-Briggs way--with a Jungian accent. |
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Emotional Intelligence Author: Daniel P. Goleman Affiliate: Amazon Book path:www.amazon.com Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our "two minds"--the rational and the emotional--and how they together shape our destiny. Through vivid examples, Goleman delineates the five crucial skills of emotional intelligence, and shows how they determine our success in relationships, work, and even our physical well-being. What emerges is an entirely new way to talk about being smart. |
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Working With Emotional IntelligencePrice: $12.76 US Book type: print Affiliate: Amazon Book path: www.amazon.com |
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Take Yourself To The TopThe Secrets of America’s #1 Career Coach Author:Laura Berman Fortgang Book Path: www.amazon.com |
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First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s
Greatest Managers Do Differently Author:Marcus Buckingham Affiliate: Amazon Book path: www.amazon.com Based on the largest study of its kind ever undertaken, more than 80,000 managers in 400 companies reveal revolutionary insights about successful managerial behavior. Presents in-depth interviews by the Gallup organization of over 80,000 successful managers. Discusses how they select an employee; for talent rather than experience, set high expectations, and motivate employees through encouragement and development of their strengths. Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman expose the fallacies of standard management thinking. |
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Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal
with Change in your Work and in Your Life Author: Spencer Johnson Book path: www.amazon.com |
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Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into
Friends and Friends Into Customers Author: Seth Godin, Don Peppers Book path: www.amazon.com The man Business Week calls "the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age" explains "Permission Marketing" -- the groundbreaking concept that enables marketers to shape their message so that consumers will willingly accept it. |
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Title: Ready, Steady, Goal
- 60 Surefire Ways to Success and Goal Achievement |
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Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Psychological
Skills for Understanding and Influencing People Author:Joseph O’Connor & John Seymour Book type: print Affiliate: Amazon Book path: www.amazon.com NLP skills are proving invaluable for personal development and professional excellence in counselling, education, and business. A very good introduction to the major techniques of NLP… a great start for any beginner. |
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The E-Myth Manager : Why Management Doesn't
Work-And What to Do About ItAuthor: Michael E. Gerber Book type: print Affiliate: Amazon Book path: www.amazon.com |
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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses
Don’t Work and What to do about It Author: Michael E. Gerber Book type: print Affiliate: Amazon Book path: www.amazon.com |
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