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Working With You is Killing Meby Katherine Crowley; Kathi Elster
Warner 2006; US$ 9.99If you find yourself frustrated with a colleague whose incompetence is driving you crazy a boss who gets angry when you're not a mind reader, or an employee who challenges your authority chances are you're caught in an emotional trap at your job. The solution is simple: Take control of your own response. In this pragmatic, insightful guide, psychotherapist Katherine Crowley and business consultant Kathi Elster teach you how to eliminate your workplace woes step by easy step. Through quizzes, case examples, and field-tested strategies, you'll learn how to handle any bad work relationship. With your newfound emotional skills, you'll be able to: Manage an ill-tempered boss before he or she explodes, Detach from coworkers whose irritating habits... more...
Working With Emotional Intelligenceby Daniel Goleman
Bantam Books 2011; US$ 11.99Do you have what it takes to succeed in your career? The secret of success is not what they taught you in school. What matters most is not IQ, not a business school degree, not even technical know-how or years of expertise. The single most important factor in job performance and advancement is emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is actually a set of skills that anyone can acquire, and in this practical guide, Daniel Goleman identifies them, explains their importance, and shows how they can be fostered. For leaders, emotional intelligence is almost 90 percent of what sets stars apart from the mediocre. As Goleman documents, it's the essential ingredient for reaching and staying at the top in any field, even in high-tech... more...
Snakes in Suitsby Paul Babiak; Robert D. Hare
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99Let's say you're about to hire somebody for a position in your company. Your corporation wants someone who's fearless, charismatic, and full of new ideas. Candidate X is charming, smart, and has all the right answers to your questions. Problem solved, right? Maybe not. We'd like to think that if we met someone who was completely without conscience -- someone who was capable of doing anything at all if it served his or her purposes -- we would recognize it. In popular culture, the image of the psychopath is of someone like Hannibal Lecter or the BTK Killer. But in reality, many psychopaths just want money, or power, or fame, or simply a nice car. Where do these psychopaths go? Often, it's to the corporate world. Researchers Paul... more...
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are Highby Kerry Patterson; Joseph Grenny; Ron McMillan; Al Switzler
McGraw-Hill 2002; US$ 18.00Foreword by Stephen R. Covey, Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL "Most books make promises. This one delivers. These skills have not only helped us to change the culture of our company, but have also generated new techniques for working together in ways that enabled us to win the largest contract in our industry's history." --Dain M. Hancock, President, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics A powerful, seven-step approach to handling difficult conversations with confidence and skill "Crucial" conversations are interpersonal exchanges at work or at home that we dread having but know we cannot avoid. How do you say what needs to be said while avoiding an argument with a boss, child, or... more...
Ethical Leadershipby Manuel Mendonca; Rabindra N. Kanungo
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 49.98What is the place of ethics in organizational culture? What constitutes good leadership? How do different cultures define ethical leadership? This book explores the value of ethics in a business climate overwhelmingly driven by the need to generate profits and cut costs. more...
The Differenceby Scott E. Page
Princeton University Press 2008; US$ 24.95In this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to one another. The Difference is about how we think in groups--and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts. Why can teams of people find better solutions than brilliant individuals working alone? And why are the best group decisions and predictions those that draw upon the very qualities that make each of us unique? The answers lie in diversity--not what we look like outside, but what we look like within, our distinct tools and abilities. The Difference reveals that progress and innovation may depend less on lone thinkers with enormous IQs than on diverse people working together and capitalizing on their individuality. Page shows how... more...
Law Enforcement Funeral Manualby Williams P. Sanders
Charles C Thomas 2006; US$ 27.95This funeral manual is intended to provide law enforcement agencies with a quick and informative reference when the unthinkable occurs: the unexpected death of a departmental member. The material contained herein has been gathered by the International Conference of Police Chaplains from numerous departments and sources. It covers all law enforcement circumstances/protocols and religious beliefs. Divided into seven sections, the major topics cover: preparing for the funeral; basic elements of law enforcement funerals; types of funerals; animal burials; funeral resources; survivor resources; and planning for the future. Police hymns, prayers, and help and supportive agencies are included for departments to use in drafting their own policies and... more...
The Ethical Executiveby Robert Hoyk; Paul Hersey
Stanford University Press 2008; US$ 17.95This book describes 45 psychological traps that every one of us fall prey to that cause us to act illegally or unethically. more...
Drift into Failureby Sidney Dekker
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 29.95This book explores complexity theory and systems thinking to better understand how complex systems drift into failure. It studies sensitive dependence on initial conditions, unruly technology, tipping points, diversity - and finds that failure emerges opp more...
Driveby Daniel H. Pink
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 9.99The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm- shattering new way to think about motivation. Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money-the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink in Drive . In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home-is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does-and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three... more...