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05 Sep 2010
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Business Books DifferWorld's professional education, development and coaching initiatives, as graduates will testify, are really the start of an exciting and rewarding new journey. This is often experienced as the removal of a veil and a stepping into a whole new world. This segment serves to provide you with a rich resource of business books to further your business accument. As such please enjoy reading the following books, feel free to send us your book summaries and also further recommendations.
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By Peter F. Drucker  The service, or non-profit, sector of our society is growing rapidly (with more than 8 million employees and more than 80 million volunteers), creating a major need for guidelines and expert advice on how to manage these organizations effectively.
Drucker gives examples and explanations of mission, leadership, resources, marketing, goals, people development, decision making, and much more. Included are interviews with nine experts that address key issues in the non-profit sector.
Provides examples and explanations of mission, leadership, resources, marketing, goals, people development, and decision making. Includes interviews of nine experts that address key issues in the non-profit sector. Click here to purchase this DifferWorld's recommended book from Amazon.
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By Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton  Amazon.com's Best of 2001
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 personality themes the two have formulated (such as Achiever, Developer, Learner, and Maximizer) and explains how to build a "strengths-based organization" by capitalizing on the fact that such traits are already present among those within it.
Most original and potentially most revealing, however, is a Web-based interactive component that allows readers to complete a questionnaire developed by the Gallup Organization and instantly discover their own top-five inborn talents. This device provides a personalized window into the authors' management philosophy which, coupled with subsequent advice, places their suggestions into the kind of practical context that's missing from most similar tomes. "You can't lead a strengths revolution if you don't know how to find, name and develop your own," write Buckingham and Clifton. Their book encourages such introspection while providing knowledgeable guidance for applying its lessons. -- Howard Rothman Click here to purchase this DifferWorld's recommended book from Amazon.
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By Don Edward Beck, Christopher C. Cowan  Spiral Dynamics presents a new framework for understanding the dynamic forces at work in human affairs- business, personal life, education, and even geopolitics.It is not another hard edged and simplistic 'types of people' model, nor a soft 'everybody's is beautiful' egalitarian approach.
Based in decades of research, real world applications and the latest findings of both organisational theorist and neurobiology, this book lays out a very special tool kit for managing the deepest differences in people. These core intelligences exist like strange attractors below our values, beliefs and ethical structures. By applying the right tools at this base level rather than to surface symptoms, any bright, curious human being can, quite simply change the world ... Click here to purchase this DifferWorld's recommended book from Amazon.
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By John C. Maxwell, Zig Ziglar  Amazon.com
John C. Maxwell offers lively stories about the foibles and successes of Lee Iacocca, Abraham Lincoln, Princess Diana, and Elizabeth Dole in The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. Readers can expect a well-crafted discussion that emphasizes the core attitudes and visions of leadership. Maxwell uses the same tell-it-like-it-is approach that he honed in the bestselling Developing the Leader Within You. For instance, when explaining "The Law of Influence," Maxwell states that "job titles don't have much value when it comes to leading. True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed or assigned. It comes only from influence and that can't be mandated." Even after Princess Diana was stripped of her title, Maxwell says she was still able to lead a global effort toward banning land mines because of her sophisticated ability to influence others.
If readers are looking for a step-by-step formula, Maxwell's list of "laws" will probably seem too chatty and anecdote driven. There are no specific tips on what readers can do during the next workday to help them become stronger leaders. On the other hand, Maxwell's background as a pastor gives him an inspirational voice and a spiritual context to leadership that many business and church leaders appreciate. --Gail Hudson Click here to purchase this DifferWorld's recommended book from Amazon.
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By Peter F. Drucker  Revered management thinker Peter F. Drucker is our trusted guide in this thoughtful, day-by-day companion that offers his penetrating and practical wisdom. Amid the multiple pressures of our daily work lives, The Daily Drucker provides the inspiration and advice to meet the many challenges we face.
With his trademark clarity, vision, and humanity, Drucker sets out his ideas on a broad swath of key topics, from time management, to innovation, to outsourcing, providing useful insights for each day of the year. These 366 daily readings have been harvested from Drucker's lifetime of work. At the bottom of each page, the reader will find an action point that spells out exactly how to put Drucker's ideas into practice. It is as if the wisest and most action-oriented management consultant in the world is in the room, offering his timeless gems of advice. The Daily Drucker is for anyone who seeks to understand and put to use Drucker's powerful words and ideas. Click here to purchase this DifferWorld's recommended book from Amazon.
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