These are the books that are waiting to be read next. Some are gifts given to me after Keynotes or consulting engagements, others from family and friends. The greatest cause of this ever growing stack is my own ever growing passion for books. For example, last night after a dinner date with my wife we stopped by Barnes and Noble to purchase a new book by Max Lucado, entitled "It's Not About Me". I had a $50 gift certificate, but still managed to spend an additional $113.65 before walking out with nearly a dozen promising titles. If these books prove worthwhile, and I think many will, you'll see them appear on the other listings. The Power of a Praying Husband The back cover of this book offered some questions that made me curious to explore the content.... Buy now from Amazon.com | If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat At a glance this seems to be a very Christian focused book... the idea of getting out of the boat or of getting off of the sideline and into the game... really resonates with me... so I bought it. ... Buy now from Amazon.com | Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work The Title was enough for me to pick this one up...... Buy now from Amazon.com | Developing The Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential If there is just one great idea, or refining insight in this book it will be worth it.... Buy now from Amazon.com | Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay Because finding the ideal person for every workplace position has become an increasingly difficult task, the retention of top employees has become every manager's concern. Love 'Em or Lose 'Em, by organizational-development specialists Beverly L. Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans, proposes that this "race for talent" can be effectively run only by those who adopt programs and policies that truly support their personnel. It then shows how to do so, even in organizations reluctant to participate actively.Kaye and Jordan-Evans encourage an initial scan of... Buy now from Amazon.com | Thinking Body Dancing Mind Buy now from Amazon.com | | Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching and Keeping the Best People The key to building a superior company, an increasing number of observers now agree, is the ongoing ability to recruit and retain superior personnel. In Topgrading, industrial psychologist and global consultant Bradford Smart expands upon this idea by examining in great detail exactly how today's premier organizations have assembled such top-level employees, and then showing precisely how others can do it, too. "Simply put, topgrading is the practice of packing the team with A players and clearing out the C players," Smart writes. "'A players' is... Buy now from Amazon.com | Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot : Unleashing Your Brain's Potential Buy now from Amazon.com |
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