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.Good to Great
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by: Jim Collins

November 05, 2007
This is essential reading for leaders of organisations. Collins used meticulous research to find out what enables companies to make the leap from good to great. He describes a number of common themes. One is 'level 5 leadership' - self-effacing servant leaders who build and empower their teams. Another is the emphasis on choosing the right people before aligning the strategy. The book is clear, concise and easy to read. If you want to build a high performance organisation then this work must be on your reading list.
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.Wake Up and Change Your Life (CD)
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by: Duncan Bannatyne

August 21, 2008
I bought Audio version of this book from itunes as I can listen but may buy the book as well just to back up what was said, the book gives case studies from known people like dragons den`s James Cann and other well known business people and how they got started and gives snippets of what their best advice would be.

It is not surprising that the advice they give is very similar in style and not one of them says that they regret anything about how they got started.

Buy it, it truly is a great book.

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.Brilliant NLP
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by: David Molden, Pat Hutchinson

June 29, 2006
Badly recorded. Little time between subjects. The descriptions of techniques are of little use without some sort of visual representation. My advice would be to produce a small accompanying booklet. Failing that, don't waste your money.
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.The 7 Habits for Managers: Managing Yourself, Leading Others, Unleashing Potential
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by: Stephen R. Covey

August 20, 2007
Badly recorded. Little time between subjects. The descriptions of techniques are of little use without some sort of visual representation. My advice would be to produce a small accompanying booklet. Failing that, don't waste your money.
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.How to Win Friends and Influence People: Unabridged
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by: Dale Carnegie

August 21, 2000
Although originally written several decades ago, Carnegie's masterpiece about human
relationships is still timeless classic with principles that still apply today. Carnegie crafts a classic on how to create strong and lasting relationships with others through listening, understanding, and emphasizing. He argues convincingly that the way to win friends and influence people is to make others feel important. Simple, but extremely powerful concepts!

The Re-Discovery of Common Sense: A Guide To: The Lost Art of Critical Thinking
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.The E-myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work
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by: Michael E. Gerber

September 07, 2006
My God. Never have I heard such a weak set of obvious ideas padded into such a marathon of self congratulatory waffle.

8 hours of audio book? The message could be communicated with far more impact and without loss of detail in an hour tops. I find myself able to read the newspaper while listening to this droning American and still able to follow the banal course of the message, such is the pace of the reading and the level of repetition - if you've missed a bit, just listen a minute longer, he's bound to repeat himself (and again, and again).

He goes on and on, saying the same thing a dozen times, presumably for "effect". The only effect for me being frustration and boredom.

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.The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
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by: Stephen R. Covey

January 03, 2005
Having found Stephen Covey's "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" an extremely useful tool for organising my life, I really looked forward to what might lie in store with this "8th Habit" volume.

In many ways, I found reading it very much like eating a fruit cake - insofar as the pearls of wisdom and practical advice that were so densely packed in the "Seven Habits" - (I have my MS Outlook organised into Covey's "Urgent and Important, Important and Not Urgent . . ." system) were still there, but they were mixed more thinly through the dough of the fruit cake.

The subtitle of the book is "Finding Your Own Voice and Teaching Others to Find Their's" and indeed it does have some extremely valuable lessons to give about empowerment ... Read More:
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.The Psychology of Selling:(Abridged Single CD) Nightingale Conant Brian Tracy
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by: Brian Tracy

January 01, 1995
Having found Stephen Covey's "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" an extremely useful tool for organising my life, I really looked forward to what might lie in store with this "8th Habit" volume.

In many ways, I found reading it very much like eating a fruit cake - insofar as the pearls of wisdom and practical advice that were so densely packed in the "Seven Habits" - (I have my MS Outlook organised into Covey's "Urgent and Important, Important and Not Urgent . . ." system) were still there, but they were mixed more thinly through the dough of the fruit cake.

The subtitle of the book is "Finding Your Own Voice and Teaching Others to Find Their's" and indeed it does have some extremely valuable lessons to give about empowerment ... Read More:
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.Stephen R Covey on Leadership: Great Leaders, Great Teams, Great Results
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by: Stephen R. Covey

April 21, 2008
Having found Stephen Covey's "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" an extremely useful tool for organising my life, I really looked forward to what might lie in store with this "8th Habit" volume.

In many ways, I found reading it very much like eating a fruit cake - insofar as the pearls of wisdom and practical advice that were so densely packed in the "Seven Habits" - (I have my MS Outlook organised into Covey's "Urgent and Important, Important and Not Urgent . . ." system) were still there, but they were mixed more thinly through the dough of the fruit cake.

The subtitle of the book is "Finding Your Own Voice and Teaching Others to Find Their's" and indeed it does have some extremely valuable lessons to give about empowerment ... Read More:
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.The Toyota Way: What Toyota Can Teach Any Business About High Quality, Efficience, and Speed
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by: Jeffrey K. Liker

November 25, 2005
I read this book when it was first published in 2004 and recently re-read it, curious to know how well Jeffrey Liker's explanation of Toyota's management principles and lean production values have held up. My conclusion? Very well.

No good purpose would be served by merely listing the 14 management principles, out of context. Liker devotes a separate chapter to each, carefully explaining not only what it is but also how it guides and informs everyone at all levels and in all areas of the Toyota organization. What Liker also accomplishes, and what cannot be adequately summarized in a review such as this, is to explain how all 12 principles are interdependent. Together, they serve as the company's DNA. In the Preface, he recalls asking Fujio Cho (President ... Read More:
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