January 28, 2009 at 10:09 am by: Celeste Blackburn
Resources for Humans managing editor Celeste Blackburn reviews the book Light Their Fire: Using Internal Marketing to Ignite Employee Performance and Wow Your Customers by Susan Drake, Michelle Gullman, and Sara Roberts.
In Light Their Fire: Using Internal Marketing to Ignite Employee Performance and Wow Your Customers, employee communications experts Susan Drake, Michelle Gullman, and Sara [...]
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January 26, 2009 at 9:42 am by: Celeste Blackburn
The following is a list of the bestselling hardcover business books as ranked by the New York Times on January 26.
1. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. hy some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent — from the author of Blink: The Power of [...]
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January 21, 2009 at 10:31 am by: Mike Maslanka
Employment law attorney Michael Maslanka looks at the book The Likeability Factor: How to Boost Your L-Factor and Achieve Your Life’s Dreams by Yahoo! executive Tim Sanders.
Here are a few big ideas for HR professionals and others from Yahoo! executive Tim Sanders’ latest book, The Likeability Factor: How to Boost Your L-Factor and Achieve [...]
Posted in Harmonious Workplace, Real-Life Lessons, Review by: Mike Maslanka
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January 19, 2009 at 11:03 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, January 19, in the “Organizational Behavior” category.
1. Jeffrey Gitomer’s Little Teal Book of Trust: How to Earn It, Grow It, and Keep It to Become a Trusted Advisor in Sales, Business [...]
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January 14, 2009 at 9:45 am by: Carol Hacker
Author and talent management expert Carol A. Hacker writes about her book “The High Cost of Low Morale . . . and What to Do About It.” She offers tips from her book for reducing employee turnover.
The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that the average cost of one turnover is 30 percent of the [...]
Posted in Communicating, Company Culture, Harmonious Workplace, Retention by: Carol Hacker
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January 12, 2009 at 10:47 am by: Celeste Blackburn
Business Week ranks business books that are the most recent bestsellers and provides a short summary.
1. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. As you’d expect with Gladwell, there are lots of surprises in his explanation of why some people succeed fantastically. Pluck and smarts get less play here than such matters as one’s [...]
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January 7, 2009 at 7:00 am by: Celeste Blackburn
Resources for Humans managing editor Celeste Blackburn reviews the book E-Mail: A Write It Well Guide — How to Write and Manage E-Mail In the Workplace by Janis Fisher Chan. An industrious HR person could not only benefit personally from reading this book and applying its theories but could also condense the information to create [...]
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January 5, 2009 at 1:04 pm by: Celeste Blackburn
The following is a list of the bestselling paperback business books as ranked by the New York Times on January 5.
1. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell. How and why certain products and ideas become fads.
2. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen. [...]
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