October 29, 2008 at 12:10 pm by: Celeste Blackburn
Resources for Humans managing editor Celeste Blackburn reviews the book Recognizing Richard Rabbit: A Fable about Being True to Yourself by Peter Weddle. Review finds that while book may be useful in therapy setting, it doesn’t offer much for the HR professional.
In Recognizing Richard Rabbit: A Fable About Being True to Yourself, Peter Weddle separates [...]
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October 27, 2008 at 9:56 am by: Celeste Blackburn
Amazon.com updates its list of the bestselling business books every hour. Here is a snapshot of what is hot right now, this Monday morning, October 27, in the “Business and Investing” category.
1. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now [...]
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October 22, 2008 at 10:34 am by: Celeste Blackburn
Last October, we launched Resources for Humans: A Review of the Best Books for HR. So this week, we are taking a look back at the five most popular reviews. We hope you have enjoyed this first year and found many helpful books. We look forward to bringing you another year full of great reading.
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October 20, 2008 at 2:19 pm by: Celeste Blackburn
BusinessWeek ranks business books that are the most recent bestsellers and provides a short summary.
1. StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup’s Now, Discover Your Strengths by Tom Rath. Are you unsure where your true talents lie? Do you feel that you are both a person who gets things [...]
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October 15, 2008 at 9:12 am by: Celeste Blackburn
Resources for Humans managing editor Celeste Blackburn reviews the book The Levity Effect: Why It Pays to Lighten Up. Review summarizes book’s theory on how levity improves the workplace and ways to achieve levity.
These are serious times. As the stock market plunges and the government is bailing out banks, many employers are struggling to make [...]
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October 13, 2008 at 9:12 am by: Celeste Blackburn
The following is a list of the bestselling paperback business books as ranked by the New York Times on October 13.
1. The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman. A columnisView this Postt for the New York Times analyzes 21st-century economics and foreign policy and presents an [...]
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October 8, 2008 at 9:13 am by: Mike Maslanka
Employment law attorney Michael Maslanka reviews the business book Dealing with People You Can’t Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst by Rick Brinkman and Rick Kirschner. Review covers four steps from the book for dealing with “yes” people.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. And there are [...]
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October 6, 2008 at 9:08 am by: Celeste Blackburn
Amazon.com updates its list of the bestselling business books every hour. Here is a snapshot of what is hot right now, this Monday morning, October 6, in the “Organizational Behavior” category.
1. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni. The author targets group behavior in the final entry of his trilogy [...]
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October 1, 2008 at 10:43 am by: Mike Maslanka
Employment law attorney Michael Maslanka reviews the book Coping with Difficult People: The Proven-Effective Battle Plan that Has Helped Millions Deal with the Troublemakers in Their Lives at Home and Work. Review focuses on book’s profiles of employees who cause supervisors, managers, and coworkers stress and tips for how to deal with those employees.
Coping with [...]
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