The Truth About Managing People (Free Book for a Limited Time) by Stephen P. Robbins Amazon Price: Customer Review: This is an excellent book about "managing people" (I prefer "leading people") with 63 short myth-dispelling "truth" chapters. By the way, Charlie "Tremendous" Jones said, "You are the same today as yo...
Out of Water: From Abundance to Scarcity and How to Solve the World's Water P... by Colin Chartres, Samyuktha Varma Amazon Price:
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (J-B Lencioni Series) by Patrick Lencioni Amazon Price: $13.91
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Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) by Stephenie Meyer Amazon Price: $6.05
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Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown Amazon Price: $8.99
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First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 CK, Seventh Edition (First Aid USMLE) by Tao Le, Vikas Bhushan, Herman Bagga Amazon Price: $40.45
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Intermediate Accounting by Donald E. Kieso, Jerry J. Weygandt, Terry D. Warfield Amazon Price: $163.85
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I'll have to say this is one of the poo...
Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements by Tom Rath, Ph.D. James K. Harter Amazon Price: $17.13
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The Why of Work: How Great Leaders Build Abundant Organizations That Win by Dave Ulrich, Wendy Ulrich Amazon Price: $18.45
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Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results by Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen Amazon Price: $13.59
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Okay, there are those lists of "10 worst jobs," and books about horrible supervisors. The Dilbert collection highlights the pitfalls of today's work environme...
Gary Shteyngart ’s wonderful new novel, “Super Sad True Love Story,” is a supersad, superfunny, superaffecting performance — a book that not only showcases the ebullient satiric gifts he demonstrated in his entertaining 2002 debut, “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook,” but that also uncovers his abilities to...
SAN FRANCISCO ORIENTATION for new employees of Zynga, the fast-growing maker of Facebook games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars , can be a heady affair given the company’s outsize ambitions — all of which are embodied in Mark Pincus, Zynga’s 44-year-old founder. In a pep talk this month, Mr. Pincus told his company’s newcomers...
