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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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As Corporate America's Chief Morale Officer' these are some of the titles that I have used successfully in my journey of Coaching Corporations on the Creation of Community, Connections, Change, and the development of an Outrageously Cool Culture. There are ideas and insights in these titles that I know will help you on your journey to do the same. 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!... 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 | First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently A business case for leadership development that is based on a Gallup survey of over a million employees and 80,000 managers from a vast range of companies and industries. I recommend it be a required reading for you and members of your leadership team. One key finding of the research was this: talented employees need great managers. "The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor." So, while your company is spending a lot of resources on employee retention and recruitment, for a return on investment your company would be wise to concurrently develop the leadership team to be talent savvy. If time is an issue, the book is also available on audio cassette, the cassette is an abridgment, I highly recommend, unless you want all of the details. ... Buy now from Amazon.com | Love Is the Killer App : How to Win Business and Influence Friends A neighbor showed up on my porch late one night and excitedly placed a copy of this book in my hands... saying, "You simply must read this!" So I did, and WOW am I glad I did. The author himself is a huge reading advocate, and shares how to get the most from your reading, and from your work. I had a chance to hear him speak recently, and he was the coolest guy. This is a fairly quick read, and very... Buy now from Amazon.com | Shaping School Culture : The Heart of Leadership My neighbor who works in the arena of public education, found out I was a "culture guy" and after a few conversations gave me this book. It may share and illustrate in context of schools, but since all real and lasting change is only going to occur due to the consistent application of universal principles.... so it will take no real genius to switch context. I love this book, it validated, it gives insight, it gives hope! Excellent!... Buy now from Amazon.com | How to Hug a Porcupine: Dealing With Toxic & Difficult to Love Personalities Buy now from Amazon.com
| Gung Ho! Turn On the People in Any Organization I think this wonderful little book illustrates in a very simple format 3 core principles that are fundamental to creating maintaining and nurturing a positive culture. It also states unequivocally that a core pocket of excellence can exist even in the midst of corporate chaos and mediocrity. No more victims... Gung HO is a must for any young leader and a sweet reminder for the experienced manager. ENJOY GUNG HO!! Here is the story of how two managers saved a failing company and turned in record profits with record productivity. The three core ideas of Gung Ho! The Spirit of the Squirrel, The Way of the Beaver, The Gift of the Goose are surprisingly simple: worthwhile work guided by goals and values; putting workers in control of their production; and cheering one another on. ... Buy now from Amazon.com | Raving Fans : A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service Really the first book I ever read on customer service... I immediately read it to our first group of new hires and we adopted the language and implimented the principles into our culture. Creating Raving Fans was not then, nor should it ever be just "an event". It is an attitude, an oprational philosphy... a WAY OF LIFE! This book is CORE, a must read! (At least I think so, Kirk out) ... Buy now from Amazon.com | Do One Thing Different : Ten Simple Ways to Change Your Life Through simple language without any jargon, and numerous enlightening true stories, he instills hope by freeing people from the past and limited beliefs, and by helping them to stop analyzing and actually change by doing what works, changing their viewing of the problem and applying the 10 solution keys. He is "painfully aware that life is more complex than anything even the wisest and best-written book can contain." And quotes Mark Twain's warning: "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."(p.195) The whole book is precisely the antidote to such obsessive and rigid thinking at the root of many of our problems and... Buy now from Amazon.com | Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success 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 | 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 | Now, Discover Your Strengths Effectively managing personnel--as well as one's own behavior--is an extraordinarily complex task that, not surprisingly, has been the subject of countless books touting what each claims is the true path to success. That said, Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton's Now, Discover Your Strengths does indeed propose a unique approach: focusing on enhancing people's strengths rather than eliminating their weaknesses. Following up on the coauthors' popular previous book, First, Break All the Rules, it fully describes 34 positive... Buy now from Amazon.com | Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life On the best seller list for over a year, being used by more organizations than you can shake a stick at... taking a whopping 45 minutes to read... why haven't you read it? Don't spend too much time at Cheese Station 3. The tragedy is that so many organizations read it, but don't discuss it, and it's application to their change... Buy now from Amazon.com |
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