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 The Cookie Thief – Fresh Out of the Oven
After nearly a year of hard work Kirk’s second all ages book "The Cookie Thief" has just come out of the oven(printer). Like his best smelling Dog Poop Initiative, this book has a fully illustrated metaphorical message that works as well in the board room as it does in the living room. The illustrations by artist Adam Koford are "way cool" and with him, Kirk was able to add lots of little surprises and extras that are sure to make the book something people will read again and again. This self published book is available for immediate purchase at MoreBetterBooks.com and has it’s own "freshly baked" website at TheCookieThiefBook.com
 Speaking on Success
This inspiring book interviews a dozen experts asking them to share their insights on developing personal, professional, and organizational success. Notable names in this book include Stephen Covey, Ken Blanchard, Chad Hymas and others. Kirk’s inclusion in the book is only one more reason to buy your copy. Speaking on Success is available at MoreBetterBooks.com.
"The Dog Poop Initiative" Book
A true story of scoopers and poopers, Of pointers and heroes. Of those who score real goals, And those who score zeroes. Find out more... |
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Nearly every "highly" successful person I have ever met has a "Personal Leadership Library" which consist of some of their favorite titles... Books that helped to shape their personal leadership and management philosophy, or validate it. These are books that represent a portion of my Leadership Library. I invite you to select a few for your own Library as well. Built to Last : Successful Habits of Visionary Companies A compelling, thorough, well-written, unprecedented look at what it takes to "create and achieve long-lasting greatness as a visionary corporation. I now use this book as my culture handbook and know that it can benefit you as well. Leaders are reading this book, and when you do, you'll have, in common with them, a shared set of ideas, and a shared language. I preferred the audio version but own the print as well. I loved how the research shattered myths like these five and several others. - It takes a great idea to start a great company
- Visionary companies require great and charismatic visionary leaders
- Visionary companies share a common subset of "correct" core values
- Highly successful companies make their best moves by brilliant and complex strategic planning
- The most successful companies focus primarily on beating the competition
... Buy now from Amazon.com | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't I have recommended this book to several people, always with the promise that they will enjoy the book so much, that they'll want to buy me lunch just to thank me. So far, I've eaten lunch with every one of them. This is one heck of a powerful culture book so if you are a culture person .I've read it twice so far, and am going back for... Buy now from Amazon.com | Leadership and Self Deception: Getting Out of the Box Ready for a candid view of yourself... a really candid look? For the courageous seeker of personal development and change. I recommend this book almost more than any other... I enjoyed it so much I sought out the company and attended a couple of their training and education workshops. This book is worth several reads...and without question you should own it! If you don't absolutely love it... I'll buy it from you!... 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Buy now from Amazon.com | The Leader's Voice: How Communication Can Inspire Action and Get Results! Buy now from Amazon.com | The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work : A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert I was commissioned to read and review nearly 50 texts on marriage relationships and parenting, and of all that I read, this book was my absolute favorite! There are so many reasons why... call me if you want details... or better yet... READ THE BOOK, or listen to it on... Buy now from Amazon.com | Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done Disciplines like strategy, leadership development, and innovation are the sexier aspects of being at the helm of a successful business; actually getting things done never seems quite as glamorous. But as Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan demonstrate in Execution, the ultimate difference between a company and its competitor is, in fact, the ability to execute. Execution is "the missing link between aspirations and results," and as such, making it happen is the business leader's most important job. While failure in today's business environment is... Buy now from Amazon.com | What the CEO Wants You to Know : How Your Company Really Works Ram Charan learned about business from his family's shoe shop in India before attending Harvard Business School and going on to advise senior executives in companies large and small. His experiences taught him that universal laws apply "whether you sell fruit from a stand or are running a Fortune 500 company," and that the business acumen that comes from understanding these basics can be applied throughout any operation. What the CEO Wants You to Know is Charan's primer on this point, which he illustrates with explanations filtered through the eyes of street... Buy now from Amazon.com | Re-imagine! Buy now from Amazon.com | Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antartic Explorer The explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton has recently become the legendary character at the center of a renewed fascination with the early days of Antarctic exploration. Though not the most renowned explorer of his day, nor even the most successful in terms of stated goals, Shackleton's story of adventurous ambition, incredible endurance, and heroic survival against all odds is indeed the stuff of legend. And now, thanks to the detailed research and helpful insights of Morrell and Capparell, his story is also the meaty material of lessons on how to lead with authority, integrity,... Buy now from Amazon.com | The Leadership Challenge, 3rd Edition In the 1980s and again in the '90s, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner published The Leadership Challenge to address issues they uncovered in research on ordinary people achieving "individual leadership standards of excellence." The keys they identified--model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, enable others to act, encourage the heart--have now been reexamined in the context of the post-millennium world and updated in a third edition. "What we have discovered, and rediscovered, is that leadership is not the private reserve of a... Buy now from Amazon.com | The Brand You 50 : Or : Fifty Ways to Transform Yourself from an 'Employee' into a Brand That Shouts Distinction, Commitment, and Passion! If Dilbert and Tom Peters ever attended the same party, they'd probably find themselves in opposite corners. The cynical cartoon character would have a hard time in Peters's upbeat, high-energy world of "Cool-Beyond-Belief." The Brand You50 is Peters's manifesto for today's knowledge workers. It joins his Reinventing Work series, which includes The Projects50 and The Professional Service Firm50.In The Brand You50, Peters sees a new kind of corporate citizen who believes that surviving means not... Buy now from Amazon.com | All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten : Fifteenth Anniversary EditionReconsidered, Revised, & Expanded With Twenty-Five New Essays I LOVE THIS BOOK! I have used this book so many times in so many ways with so many different types of teams. Whether with folks on the front lines or with executive roundtables across America and even in Europe... this book has never ceased to amaze me with it's simple yet profound appeal. This book connects! If you don't find at least 5 stories you want to read to your team upon reading it... then you're not trying. If you don't own it, your missing out!... Buy now from Amazon.com | Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! Personal-finance author and lecturer Robert Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective through exposure to a pair of disparate influences: his own highly educated but fiscally unstable father, and the multimillionaire eighth-grade dropout father of his closest friend. The lifelong monetary problems experienced by his "poor dad" (whose weekly paychecks, while respectable, were never quite sufficient to meet family needs) pounded home the counterpoint communicated by his "rich dad" (that "the poor and the middle class work for money," but "the rich have... Buy now from Amazon.com | QBQ! The Question Behind the Question After I give a speech, or conduct a Readership Leadership lecture or a Books and Breakfast event at a conference, at least one person comes up and talks to me about this book. They assume from the content of my remarks that I have read it. Well I hadn't until just recently... and WOW! Talk about a validating, inspriring and empowering little book! I'm still pondering it, but ... I am thinking this little book just bumped another one from my all time TOP ! ... Buy now from Amazon.com | Leadership is an Art One of you sent me this book in the mail... I took on my next flight and it catapulted itself to the very top of my Recommended Reading List!! This is a MUST READ, MUST HAVE BOOK. It is the very first business book I have ever read that has the word "covenant" within its pages. The first few pages contain enough repetitions of the words relationships, connections and culture to get any servant leader excited. If the introduction doesn't close the deal for you...then the story of the "Millwright" on page 7 will! I started underlining a few great ideas on page 11 and didn't life my pen again until page 19! This is an exciting little book that will bless the life and leadership efforts of any and all who read from it's pages. ... Buy now from Amazon.com | Oh, the Places You'll Go! Inspirational yet honest, and always rhythmically rollicking, Oh, the Places You'll Go! is a perfect sendoff for children, 1 to 100, entering any new phase of their lives. Kindergartners, graduate students, newlyweds, newly employeds--all will glean shiny pearls of wisdom about the big, bountiful future. The incomparable Dr. Seuss rejoices in the potential everyone has to fulfill their wildest dreams: "You'll be on your way up! / You'll be seeing great sights! / You'll join the high fliers / who soar to high heights." At the same... Buy now from Amazon.com |
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