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The Way of Adventure
by Jeff Salz, Ph.D.
(John Wiley & Sons, $24.95) This best book of the month mixes engrossing true adventure with a plan for building a fully realized career. Salz teaches six steps to
inject adventure into your work and life: leap before you look, aim higher than Everest, give it all you've got, work some magic, keep on your bearing and enjoy the view. He illustrates each with
a generous dose of travelogue drawn from his own trips to exotic locales, including Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and Nepal. |
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The Problem Solving Journey
by Christopher W. Hoenig
(Perseus Press, $20) To give readers a dependable, repeatable process, Hoenig reduces the problem-solving process to six "essential skills"
(generate the mindset, know the territory, build the relationships, manage the journeys, create the solutions and deliver the results). The paperback includes plenty of interesting examples and
action tips. |
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3 Steps to Yes
by Gene Bedell
(Crown Publishing, $23) Sales consultant Bedell offers salespeople a simple, accessible primer for selling themselves and their wares. His three steps: fulfill the
personal needs of others, be credible and communicate persuasively. He backs the three principles with "21 Gentle Persuasion Habits," which cover everything from personal appearance to needs
assessment. |
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The Memory Jogger 9000/2000
by Robert W. Peach, Bill Peach and Diane S. Ritter
(GOAL/QPC, $7.95) The Memory Jogger helps people easily prepare for, implement and maintain ISO 9001 registration.
The updated clauses of the ISO 9001:2000 quality management standard are organized into sections that direct organizations toward continual quality management system improvement. Additional
resources and supplemental references help employees understand ISO 9000 fundamentals. |
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It's Not the Big that Eat the Small…
It's the Fast that Eat the Slow
by Jason Jennings and Laurence Haughton
(HarperCollins, $26) Consultants Jennings and Haughton preach speed and use seven well-
and not-so-well-known companies to illustrate their gospel. The book explains how to supercharge thinking, decision making and time to market and how to make speed an operational and cultural
mainstay. |
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