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Fat Is Not Your Fate : Outsmart Your Genes and Lose the Weight Forever |
Dr. Susan Mitchell |
ISBN: 0743250397, Hardcover - 16.47 BUY
Fat is Not Your Fate: Outsmart Your Genes and
Lose the Weight Forever offers a bold new way to look at the weight
loss issue by stressing the importance of a personalized nutrition plan
tailored to suit the needs of your particular genetic makeup. Based on
cutting-edge gene based research and on their own success stories from
over a decade of private practice, nutrition experts Dr. Susan Mitchell
and Dr. Catherine Christie bring us the only diet plan tailored for
each of six gene-based phenotypes--Addictive, Blood pressure,
Cardiovascular, Diabetic, Emotional, or Hormonal. We highly recommend
you check out their website. |
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Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything |
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner |
ISBN: 006073132X, Hardcover - $15.11 BUY
Economics is not widely considered to be one of
the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never
receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace,
literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion
that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with
finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In
Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many
apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious:
they could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the
right questions and drawing connections. |
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How to Overcome Managerial Shyness and Manage Assertively |
Ronald R. Johnson |
ISBN: 097658350X, Paperback - $24.95 BUY
Many new managers have
difficulty performing supervisory functions like assigning unpleasant
tasks, denying unreasonable requests, and correcting unwanted employee
behavior. This book will also help experienced managers with shy
characteristics. They will discover new methods to unlearn all those
old, self-defeating behaviors that have prevented them from becoming
assertive managers. This book is a self-teaching guide filled with
practical techniques, examples, case studies, and exercises. Unlike
traditional books, it offers a comprehensive building block
approach. This book is a "must read" for every new manager, or any
manager who wants to unlearn old, self-defeating behaviors that prevent
them from becoming assertive managers. |
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The Smartest Guys in the Room : The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron |
Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind |
ISBN: 1591840538, Paperback - 10.88 BUY
Like its subject, The Smartest Guys in the Room
is ambitious, grand in scope, and ruthless in its dealings. Unlike
Enron, the Texas-based energy giant that has come to represent the
post-millennium collapse of 1990s go-go corporate culture, it's also
ultimately successful. Penned by Fortune
scribes Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, the 400-page-plus chronicle of
the scandal digs deep inside the numbers while, wisely, maintaining
focus on the "smart guys" deep-frying the books. |
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Execution - The Discipline of Getting Things Done |
by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck (Contributor) |
ISBN: 0609610570, Hardcover - 16.99 BUY
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. |
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The Richest Man in Babylon
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by George S. Clason
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ISBN: 0451205367, Paperback -$6.99 BUY
I often give this book out as a gift whenever a person younger than me asks for my advice on money. I always present this book to them saying "if you read it and do as it says, it will work magic." It really contains excellent, time tested advice, and would make a good gift for someone in their early 20s who is on their own for the first time, and struggling.
The book is a series of parables about money written in the 1920s by George Clason. They were written as individual essays of a few thousand words, but the theme throughout them is consistent -- save 10% of your money, give 10% away, use 10% to reduce your debt load, and live on the remaining 70%.
The stories in the book are entertaining; they are reminiscent of some of the parables in the Bible, such as the Prodigal Son or the story of the Workers in the Vineyard. I think this is intentional on the part of the author; certainly readers in the 1920s had an appreciation for "old fashioned stories with a moral" that people today seem to have lost. I enjoy the book greatly, though, and any thoughtful person who reads the book should find it interesting, especially if they are trying to get their finances in order.
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The Myth of Excellence - Why Great Companies Never Try to Be the Best at Everything
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by Fred Crawford, Ryan Mathews
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ISBN: 0609608207, Hardcover -$19.25 BUY
Crawford is the managing director of the consumer products, retail, and distribution practice at the Cap Gemini Ernst and Young consultancy. Mathews is a futurist specializing in demographics and lifestyle analysis at FirstMatter, another consulting firm. To research purchasing behavior, they surveyed 5,000 consumers, but the responses they got surprised them and prompted their title's contrary proposition.
They developed a new model of "consumer relevancy." They explain in detail the importance of price, service, quality, access, and experience for the consumer. They then suggest that for companies to be successful they need to dominate on only one of these five factors. On a second of the five they should stand out or differentiate themselves from their competitors; and on the remaining three they need only to be at par with others in their industry. With dozens of examples, Crawford and Mathews demonstrate the validity of their premise.
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Competing on Value
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by Mack Hanan, Peter Karp (Contributor)
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ISBN: 0814450369, Hardcover -$17.47 BUY
Presents a new approach to selling that emphasizes not competing on the basis of the best price, but the highest value--i.e. demonstrating to current and prospective customers that using your products or services will either cut their costs or improve their revenues. This book discusses VALUE. Value is not what you put INTO your products and services, it is what the customer GETS OUT. Three qualifiers of value are how much, how soon, and how sure--these are what the customer needs to know. In summary, this is highly recommended for every company that sells products and/or services.
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Practice What You Preach - What Managers Must Do to Create a High-Achievement Culture
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by David H. Maister
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ISBN: 0743211871, Hardcover -$18.20 BUY
Maister, a professional service consultant, surveyed 6,500 employees at 50 worldwide companies to evaluate the relationship between company financial performance and employee satisfaction and loyalty. He found a direct and dramatic correlation. Here, he offers detailed commentary from CEOs, managers and staffers, and analysis of the survey results. Bosses in all kinds of companies will benefit from his solid advice, which should be required reading for executives and upper level managers.
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Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Life
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by Spencer Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard
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ISBN: 0399144463, Paperback -$12.97 BUY
Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective. The message of Who Moved My Cheese? is that all can come to see it as a blessing, if they understand the nature of cheese and the role it plays in their lives. Who Moved My Cheese? is a parable that takes place in a maze. Four beings live in that maze: Sniff and Scurry are mice--nonanalytical and nonjudgmental, they just want cheese and are willing to do whatever it takes to get it. Hem and Haw are "littlepeople," mouse-size humans who have an entirely different relationship with cheese. It's not just sustenance to them; it's their self-image.
Their lives and belief systems are built around the cheese they've found. Most of us reading the story will see the cheese as something related to our livelihoods--our jobs, our career paths, the industries we work in--although it can stand for anything, from health to relationships. The point of the story is that we have to be alert to changes in the cheese, and be prepared to go running off in search of new sources of cheese when the cheese we have runs out.
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