Ethics 101 or Set Your Voice Free

Ethics 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know

Author: John C Maxwell

Bestselling author and expert on leadership John C. Maxwell shares the only rule that matters—in business and in life.How does a person judge what is ethical? Sometimes it's clear. In the past year or two, ethical lapses in corporate America have been well documented. But is it always easy to see where the line is in life? What's the standard? And can it work in all situations? Maxwell thinks it can. In ETHICS 101, he shows how people can live with integrity by using the Golden Rule as their standard—regardless of religion, culture, or circumstances. Along the way, he delves into the desires of the human heart, reveals the five most common pitfalls that throw people off the ethical track, and teaches how to develop the Midas touch when it comes to personal integrity.

Author Biography: John C. Maxwell lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Interesting textbook: How Nations Grow Rich or South Western Accounting with Peachtree Complete 2005

Set Your Voice Free: How to Get the Singing or Speaking Voice You Want

Author: Roger Lov

"Roger Love, vocal coach of the Beach Boys, the Jacksons, Chicago, and Hanson, among many other singing superstars, and voice coach to celebrity speakers such as John Gray, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and Tony Robbins, reveals in this book and CD package the secrets to getting the singing or speaking voice you want. Now you can love the sound of your voice on your answering machine or be ready to speak or sing in front of any size audience with absolute confidence. Anyone can achieve a powerful speaking voice or beautiful singing voice with Roger Love's simple techniques. Love helps the reader set personal vocal improvement goals and find and eliminate all recognizable flaws. He introduces the revolutionary concept of middle voice and asserts that by mastering it, you can connect to incredible parts of your voice you have never used before. Love promises that almost anyone can navigate smoothly through several octaves without pressure or strain, and he shows how and why that will improve the quality of your life.
Love's approach is comprehensive. He offers breathing exercises and a step-by-step practice routine. By listening and following along with the CD (instructional CD included) and practicing at your own comfort level, you will learn the techniques Roger Love has usedM successfully with his world-famous clients, whose achievements provide inspiration throughout the book. Love encourages readers to personalize his lessons to fit them into individual schedules and lifestyles, and focuses on finding a personal style of singing or speaking that is right for you. His easy and enjoyable program will enable you to speak or sing fearlessly and deliver a message powerfully and effectively. "

Steven W. Vannoy

This collection of Bauer's essays will become one of the most treasured books in your library. Brew a fine cup of tea and sit back to relish every single word.

Allison St. Claire

Read them and weep. Read them and laugh. Catherine Bauer's words are like magic wands that elevate everyday events into the heartsong we all long to hear and enjoy.

What People Are Saying

John Gray
Roger Love has found a way to train the voice and free the heart, mind, and spirit.
—Author, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

Laura Schlessinger
I had never realized how much our ability to speak comfortably and correctly matters to our psyches and our effectiveness in communication.
—From the Foreword

Anthony Robbins
Over the years, I have worked with more vocal coaches—and tried more vocal techniques—than I care to remember. It wasn't until I met Roger Love that I gained 100 percent certainty that my voice would perform the way I expect and need it to. With Roger Love's new book, you too have the opportunity to learn from a truly amazing vocal master.
—Author, Awaken the Giant Within and Unlimited Power

Joe Elliott
I study with Roger and you should too.
—Lead singer, Def Leppard

Robert Lamm
If you want to sing like the stars, Roger Love is the way.—Singer/songwriter, Chicago

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
Ch. 1	Your Best Voice	3
Ch. 2	How Do I Sound?	18
Ch. 3	Breathing	33
Ch. 4	The Miracle of Middle Voice	50
Ch. 5	How to Practice	67
Ch. 6	Staking Claim to Middle	79
Ch. 7	Making Your Speaking Voice Sing	93
Ch. 8	Songs without Fear	108
Ch. 9	The Care and Feeding of Great Voices	125
Ch. 10	Essential Extras for Singers	145
Ch. 11	Essential Extras for Speakers	167
Ch. 12	The Healing Power of Voice	187
	Epilogue	197
	Appendix	199
	Acknowledgments	209
	Contact Information	211
	Index	213

New Totally Awesome Business Book for Kids Revised and Updated Third Edition or Coping with Toxic Managers Subordinates and Other Difficult People

New Totally Awesome Business Book for Kids, Revised and Updated Third Edition

Author: Arthur Bochner

This first-of-its-kind book for young entrepreneurs is now completely revised and updated for a new generation by one of the original authors (now an adult) and his 14-year-old sister.

Originally written by Arthur Bochner when he was just 13 with his mom, financial planner Adriane G. Berg, this was the first book to take kids step-by-step through the process of starting their own businesses. Now 24 and a successful political speechwriter, Arthur teams up with his kid sister, Rose, on a completely revised, updated edition to the basics of becoming an entrepreneur, offered in a smart, entertaining style just right for kids age 8-14.

This fun and fact-filled volume includes:
• cartoons, quizzes, games, and stories about starting up a business and making money from it
• How to use eBay and other Internet resources
• Ideas for donating to nonprofits and helping the environment.
• Descriptions of 20 super businesses to start right now (such as lemonade stands, lawn mowing, garage sales)
• Ten basic business skills kids need to know: Speaking up for what you want; Business budgets; Record keeping, research, and filing; Telephoning; Negotiating; Putting it in writing; Marketing, advertising, and publicity; Networking; Working with others, even parents.

VOYA

This third edition of a 1995 publication, written by a brother-and-sister team, takes students to the heart of entrepreneurship-showing that running a successful business takes first an idea and then the know-how to get the business started and to grow. The young authors define exactly what a business is and how it is structured. The next decision is the location of the business, and the skills, capital, and marketing needed. Finally the authors give twenty ideas for businesses that youth might start. These begin with the tried-and-true, such as a lemonade stand, and go on to personalizing T-shirts, leaf raking, lawn mowing, making and selling compost; garage sales, couponing, and so on. For each venture, the steps needed for success are outlined. Several suggestions seem to involve the person selling services to his or her family. But for those with cooperative families, the principles are valid and the skills gained are worthwhile. This book can certainly be thought provoking for young people with an entrepreneurial spirit, as it explains simply the fundamentals of a successful business along with a dash of more sophisticated business concepts. The illustrations are lively and engaging, and the text non-threatening. The book might also serve as supplementary text in a middle or junior high economics class.

Look this: Managed Care and Public Health or Field Guide to Project Management

Coping with Toxic Managers, Subordinates ... and Other Difficult People: Using Emotional Intelligence to Survive and Prosper

Author: Roy H Lubit

In any organization, recognizing and understanding the nature and impact of toxic behaviors can provide for the ability to manage the adverse environment and mitigate the potential risks that we often face in the workplace. In Coping with Toxic Managers, Roy Lubit skillfully tackles this complicated topic by presenting the psychological aspects of toxic behaviors in a manner that is understandable and embraceable. This is not one of those 'flavor of the month' pop-psychology books—it's truly about the science of how and why toxic people think, act, and react. Read this book and you may start looking at the people in your organization quite differently.—Michael Chuchmuch, V.P. Business Transformation and Change Management, UNISYS Corporation

I found this book to be right on the mark and learned a lot from it. Lubit understands the problems people in business face from difficult people above and below them and comes up with very insightful and practical ways to deal effectively with the situations. If all of my managers read this book they would do their jobs better. —Jeff Schindler, President and CEO, Etronics

Executives, and the senior HR officers who counsel them, struggle every day with how to deal with toxic leaders, the ones who try to achieve high performance by abusing, intimidating, mistreating, and demeaning their subordinates. Finally someone has written a book on how to handle the various types of corporate ax murderers, how to help them develop, and when to let them go. —Michael Feiner, Professor, Columbia Business School; formerly Sr. V.P. and Chief People Officer for Pepsi-Cola worldwide

RoyLubit's new book is an exciting breakthrough for anyone who has ever had a boss! It's hard to remember that bosses are only people. This book helps you understand what makes them tick, their different styles, how you can manage them effectively from below, and how to get everyone working on the same team. Lubit's secret ingredient is his incisive knowledge of how people and organizations work. A must read! —Jeffrey P. Kahn, M.D., President, WorkPsych Associates, Inc.; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Cornell University; and former President, Academy of Occupational and Organizational Psychiatry

To lead and manage effectively, we need to understand the people with whom we work. Coping with Toxic Managers, Subordinates and Other Difficult People is an excellent and thorough book containing crucial insights into why managers behave as they do, and how to cope with different types of people. It will not only help you to understand and better deal with toxic managers, but it will also help you work with yourself and with the normal vulnerabilities of managers with whom you work everyday. —Ronald A. Heifetz, Co-Founder, Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Many managers engage in destructive behavior that does considerable harm to their subordinates, their organization, and eventually themselves. Whether they are narcissistic, unethical, rigid, or aggressive, working with them can be a nightmare. In Coping with Toxic Managers, psychiatrist and organizational consultant Dr. Roy H. Lubit shows you how to develop your emotional intelligence and protect yourself and your organization from the destructive impact of toxic managers.

Drawing on his extensive experience as both a mental health professional and organizational consultant to Fortune 500 firms and large law firms, Dr. Lubit offers concrete advice as well as a way to better understand with whom you are dealing.

The basic premise of the book is that the better you understand how specific types of toxic managers view the world and what motivates them, the better you will be able to influence them to behave in ways that enable you to do your work and survive your hours at work. To borrow a phrase, this is not pop psych advice, it is sophisticated advice served quickly and understandably.

• Handling narcissistic managers. What to do when your manager thinks she's the center of the universe. What senior management can do to recognize narcissistic managers early in their careers.
• Dealing with unethical managers. How subordinates can avoid becoming accomplices and how senior management can decide whether to reform or fire them.
• Handling rigid managers. Understanding the different factors that can lie underneath rigid behavior and how to cope with each of them.
• Dealing with aggressive managers. Practical techniques for handling a variety of aggressive behaviors: when to push back, when to submit, and when to head for the hills.
• The impaired manager. Coping with anxious, depressed, obsessive, bipolar, and chemically dependent managers. Appreciating when one of these underlies aggressive, rigid, or narcissistic behavior, and what to do.
• Using emotional intelligence to develop your career and your organization. How organizations can recognize toxic managers early and decide whether to attempt to reform them or simply fire them. How to create an organization that limits toxic behavior. A guide for improving your ability to cope with the stress of dealing with toxic managers.

Essentials of Organizational Behavior or Its Not Luck

Essentials of Organizational Behavior

Author: Stephen P Robbins

This masterfully crafted introduction provides balanced coverage of all the key elements comprising the discipline of OB, in a style that readers will find both informative and interesting. This includes not only traditional topics such as personality, motivation, and leadership; but also cutting-edge issues such as emotions, trust, work-life balance, workplace spirituality, and knowledge management. People participating in any group or organizational activity.

Interesting book: Halloween or Bust or Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

It's Not Luck: Author of the Goal

Author: Eliyahu M Goldratt

Learn more about the powerful techniques first presented in the best-selling novel The Goal. In this book, Dr. Goldratt, through examples in a variety of industries, shows how to apply TOC to sales and marketing, inventory control, and production distribution. In addition, techniques in conflict resolution are introduced on both a business and personal level.

Wolf of Wall Street or The Art of War

Wolf of Wall Street

Author: Jordan Belfort

By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who waited for him at home, and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king and did his bidding, here, in his own inimitable words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called…

In the 1990s Jordan Belfort, former kingpin of the notorious investment firm Stratton Oakmont, became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of the canyons of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island. Now, in this astounding and hilarious tell-all autobiography, Belfort narrates a story of greed, power, and excess no one could invent.
Reputedly the prototype for the film Boiler Room, Stratton Oakmont turned microcap investing into a wickedly lucrative game as Belfort’s hyped-up, coked-out brokers browbeat clients into stock buys that were guaranteed to earn obscene profits–for the house. But an insatiable appetite for debauchery, questionable tactics, and a fateful partnership with a breakout shoe designer named Steve Madden would land Belfort on both sides of the law and into a harrowing darkness all his own.

From the stormy relationship Belfort shared with his model-wife as they ran a madcap household that included two young children, a full-time staff of twenty-two, a pair of bodyguards, and hidden cameras everywhere—even as the SEC and FBI zeroed in on them—tothe unbridled hedonism of his office life, here is the extraordinary story of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices at sixteen to making hundreds of millions. Until it all came crashing down…

Publishers Weekly

Belfort, who founded one of the first and largest "chop shop" brokerage firms in 1987, was banned from the securities business for life by 1994, and later went to jail for fraud and money-laundering, delivers a memoir that reads like fiction. It covers his decade of success with straightforward accounts of how he worked with managers of obscure companies to acquire large amounts of stock with minimal public disclosure, then pumped up the price and sold it, so he and the insiders made large profits while public investors usually lost. Profits were laundered through purchase of legitimate businesses and cash deposits in Swiss banks. There is only brief mention of Belfort's life before Wall Street or events since 1997. The book's main topic is the vast amount of sex, drugs and risky physical behavior Belfort managed to survive. As might be expected in the autobiography of a veteran con man with movie rights already sold, it's hard to know how much to believe. The story is told mostly in dialogue, with allegedly contemporaneous mental asides by the author, reported verbatim. But it reports only surface events, never revealing what motivates Belfort or any of the other characters. (Oct. 2)

Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information

Kirkus Reviews

A cocky bad boy of finance recalls, in much detail and scabrous language, his nasty career as a master of his own universe. At a young age, in an industry with many precocious bandits, Belfort ran a Long Island-based brokerage with the deceptively WASP-y name of Stratton Oakmont. It was a bucket shop habitually engaged in crooked underwritings. Its persuasive boss was a stock manipulator and tax dodger; he details the stock kiting, share parking, money laundering and customer swindles. Many millions poured in, and cash brought with it excess upon excess. Along with compliant women and copious drugs, there were multiple mansions, many servants, aircraft, yachts and, for all the guys on the trading floor, trophy wives. Among his under-the-table and beneath-the-sheets activities, the author's most imperative seemed to be sex and dope-taking, despite his professed abiding love for his (now ex) wife and kids. Belfort's portrait of his family is vivid, as is his depiction of the merry cast of supporting players: sweet Aunt Patricia, a Swiss forger, evil garmentos, Mad Max (Stratton's CFO and his father). The melodrama covers coke snorting, Quaalude eating, kinky sex, violence, car wrecks, even a sick child and a storm at sea. "A cautionary tale," the author calls it. It is crass, certainly, and vulgar-and a hell of a read. Belfort displays dirty writing skills many basis points above his tricky ilk. His chronicle ends with his arrest for fraud. Now, with 22 months in the slammer behind him, he's working on his next book. Entertaining as pulp fiction, real as a federal indictment. Agent: Joel Gotler/Intellectual Property Group

New interesting book: Trading in the Zone or Essentials of Corporate Finance

The Art of War

Author: Sun Tzu

Complexities of meaning and historical interpretations illustrate the timelessness of Sun Tzu's treatise on war.

Library Journal

This year's crop of Penguin "Great Ideas" volumes offers another eclectic dozen works that shaped society from the ancient Greeks to the 20th century. The books are fairly no frills, but the price isn't bad. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

What People Are Saying

Tony Soprano
Been reading that-- that book you told me about. You know, The Art of War by Sun Tzu. I mean here's this guy, a Chinese general, wrote this thing 2400 years ago, and most of it still applies today! Balk the enemy's power. Force him to reveal himself. You know most of the guys that I know, they read Prince Machiabelli, and I had Carmela go and get the Cliff Notes once and -- he's okay. But this book is much better about strategy.

Samuel B. Griffith
"As a reflection of the Chinese mind, this little work is as relevant as any Confucian classic." -- Brigadier General, ret. U.S. Marine Corps, is the author of The Battle for Guadalcanal, Peking and People and People's Wars, The Chinese People's Liberation Army, and editor and translator of Mao Tse-tung: On Guerilla War.

Table of Contents:

	Preface	11
	A Note on the Translation and Pronunciation	21
	Chronology of Approximate Dynastic Periods	25
	General Introduction and Historical Background	29
	Introduction	77
	The Art of War in Translation	163
1	Initial Estimations	165
2	Waging War	171
3	Planning Offensives	175
4	Military Disposition	181
5	Strategic Military Power	185
6	Vacuity and Substance	189
7	Military Combat	195
8	Nine Changes	201
9	Maneuvering the Army	205
10	Configurations of Terrain	211
11	Nine Terrains	217
12	Incendiary Attacks	225
13	Employing Spies	229
	Tomb Texts and Lost Writings	235
	Notes to the General Introduction and Historical Background	249
	Selected Notes to the Introduction	275
	Notes to the Translation	301
	Notes to the Tomb Texts and Lost Writings	331
	Selected Bibliography	337
	Glossary	351
	Index	363

The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell or Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic

The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell

Author: Oren Harari

WORDS, WISDOM, AND INSIGHTS FROM ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST COMMANDING FIGURES

Inspiration from the man who went from humble beginnings in Harlem to the office of Secretary of State Colin Powell is the classic American success story. Born in hardscrabble Harlem to immigrant parents, Powell rose through the ranks of the U.S. military to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-and a soft-spoken, steel-willed Desert Storm hero. Always seemingly one step ahead of both allies and competitors, he quickly became one of America's most trusted and beloved public icons, acknowledged for his courage, his compassion, and his ability to forge victory under the most trying circumstances.

The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell recounts Powell's core beliefs on leadership, negotiation, self-knowledge, and more. Based on an article written by Oren Harari after Harari met Powell and heard him speak- - -an article so compelling that it became the subject of a front-page feature in the Wall Street Journal this leadership primer reveals the secrets and insights that made Colin Powell the success he is today. Short, snappy, and packed with Powell's depth and spirit, it will help readers inspire anyone - * including themselves to extraordinary performance.

Publishers Weekly

Even before the events of last fall, Powell was well regarded by the military and civilians around the world. Now, as secretary of state during the war against terrorism, Powell's intelligence and skills as manager, negotiator and leader are even more visible. Harari, a management professor and consultant, met Powell several years ago, but wrote this book without his cooperation. The author has used Powell's own words, from his autobiography and presentations, to create a primer of Powell's leadership secrets. The book reads much like an introductory textbook, explaining key phrases, quotes, anecdotes and principles. Powell's style is somewhat unusual for a military leader. He believes in listening, not just to superiors, but to the people who serve under him; he pushes people to ask hard questions and to approach problems in creative ways; he is solution-oriented and wants answers to problems to be original, not simply tried-and-true methods. While a book by Powell himself on his leadership style would obviously have great appeal, Harari has done an admirable job of distilling the essence of Powell's leadership style. The chapter summaries ("Powell's Principles") are especially clear (e.g., "Hire on talent and values, rather than resumes"; "Don't clock hours for hours' sake"). This is a solid if basic book about leadership that should interest a wide range of readers, especially less experienced managers. Agent, Lynn Johnston. (Mar. 25) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Guiding Principles for The 21st Century Leader
Citing the spirit of leadership of Abraham Lincoln, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr., Dennis Romig, author of Side by Side Leadership, offers leaders and followers ways they can work together and create outstanding performance gains. His ideas are rooted in seven leadership principles, which include the following:

• Interaction Fields - leaders create new resources by pulling in and creatively combining resources from outside interaction fields;
• Focused Creativity - new ideas allow people to increase quality and productivity without working harder or longer;
• Proven Knowledge - knowledge and experience can help select the best of the proposed ideas for improving performance;
• Transferred Authority - when workers have the authority to make the improvements they see in their work area without waiting for upper-management approval, the benefits are realized faster.

Two-way communication, shared visionary goals, participation from all team members in decision-making and delegated authority round out the seven Side by Side Leadership principles.

Why Soundview Likes This Book
Side by Side Leadership provides excellent food for thought for those who are looking for inspirational leadership wisdom. While describing the benefits and difficulties faced by managers, supervisors and leaders at all levels of any kind of organization, the author takes the concept of leadership off its pedestal and shares the most important attributes and qualities that bring leaders success, respect and loyalty. Copyright (c) 2002 Soundview Executive Book Summaries





Book review: Kosher for Everybody or Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic: Inside One of the World's Most Admired Service Organizations

Author: Leonard L Berry

The first inside look at one of the world's most admired organizations, and the management practices that have made it great

With annual earnings exceeding $6 billion, the Mayo Clinic isn't just one of the world's most successful health care facilities, but one of its most successful businesses. In Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic, service business guru Leonard L. Berry explains how “Putting the needs of the patient first” is more than just the Clinic's motto, but an operating principle that guides every management decision. More importantly, he shows how to apply that principle to expand your business's customer base and earn fierce, undivided customer loyalty.





Table of Contents:

Ch. 1 The 100-year Brand 1

Ch. 2 Preserving a Patient-First Legacy 19

Ch. 3 Practicing Team Medicine 49

Ch. 47 Practicing Destination Medicine 67

Ch. 5 Partnering for Leadership 93

Ch. 6 Hiring for Values - And Talent 131

Ch. 7 Orchestrating the Clues of Quality 159

Ch. 8 Creating, Extending, and Protecting the Brand 185

Ch. 9 Investing in Tomorrow's Organization 223

Ch. 10 Realizing Human Potential 251

Index 267

Now Discover Your Strengths or Working

Now, Discover Your Strengths

Author: Marcus Buckingham

Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around them. Instead, guided by our parents, by our teachers, by our managers, and by psychology's fascination with pathology, we become experts in our weaknesses and spend our lives trying to repair these flaws, while our strengths lie dormant and neglected.

Marcus Buckingham, coauthor of the national bestseller First, Break All the Rules, and Donald O. Clifton, Chair of the Gallup International Research & Education Center, have created a revolutionary program to help readers identify their talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy consistent, near-perfect performance. At the heart of the book is the Internet-based StrengthsFinder® Profile, the product of a 25-year, multimillion-dollar effort to identify the most prevalent human strengths. The program introduces 34 dominant "themes" with thousands of possible combinations, and reveals how they can best be translated into personal and career success. In developing this program, Gallup has conducted psychological profiles with more than two million individuals to help readers learn how to focus and perfect these themes.

So how does it work? This book contains a unique identification number that allows you access to the StrengthsFinder Profile on the Internet. This Web-based interview analyzes your instinctive reactions and immediately presents you with your five most powerful signature themes. Once you know which of the 34 themes -- such as Achiever, Activator, Empathy, Futuristic, or Strategic -- you lead with, the book will show you how to leverage them for powerful results at three levels: foryour own development, for your success as a manager, and for the success of your organization.

With accessible and profound insights on how to turn talents into strengths, and with the immediate on-line feedback of StrengthsFinder at its core, Now, Discover Your Strengths is one of the most groundbreaking and useful business books ever written.

What People Are Saying

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Now, Discover Your Strengths, based on years of research by The Gallup Organization, is a refreshingly sensible and user-friendly way to assess your psychological assets and build on them a successful and satisfying life.

Mike Morrison
The code for managing has been broken and the secrets for success are here in this book! We know this from first-hand experience — with over 2,000 Gallup 'strengths' program graduates (and growing) — we will never look at our jobs, or our lives for that matter, the same way again. To achieve our greatest potential, this is by far the most important investment an individual or organization can make!

Ed Diener
A brilliant book that will help readers to discover and capitalize on their specific strengths, as well as assist managers in supervising people with varying strengths.

Frank Schmidt
Ralph L. Sheets Professor of Human Resources, Department of Management and Organization, College of Business, University of Iowa This book is built around a unique vision of the high-performing individual and the high-performing organization — and that vision is built on a recognition of individual differences and the unique strengths of each person. A truly important book.

Martin E.P. Seligman
The keystone of high achievement and happiness is exercising your strengths, not correcting your weaknesses. The first step is knowing which strengths you own, and this superb book gives you a powerful and accurate way to find out.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction: The Strengths Revolution at Work
	The Revolution	5
	Two Million Interviews	11
I.	The Anatomy of a Strength
Chapter 1.	Strong Lives
	The Investor, the Director, the Skin Doctor, and the Editor	19
	Tiger Woods, Bill Gates, and Cole Porter	25
	Three Revolutionary Tools	28
Chapter 2.	Strength Building
	Is He Always This Good?	39
	Knowledge and Skills	41
	Talent	48
II.	Discover the Source of Your Strengths
Chapter 3.	StrengthsFinder
	The Traces of Talent	67
	The StrengthsFinder Profile	76
Chapter 4.	The Thirty-four Themes of StrengthsFinder
	Achiever	83
	Activator	84
	Adaptability	85
	Analytical	86
	Arranger	87
	Belief	88
	Command	89
	Communication	90
	Competition	91
	Connectedness	92
	Context	93
	Deliberative	94
	Developer	95
	Discipline	96
	Empathy	97
	Fairness	98
	Focus	99
	Futuristic	100
	Harmony	101
	Ideation	102
	Inclusiveness	103
	Individualization	104
	Input	105
	Intellection	106
	Learner	107
	Maximizer	108
	Positivity	109
	Relator	110
	Responsibility	111
	Restorative	112
	Self-assurance	113
	Significance	114
	Strategic	115
	Woo	116
III.	Put Strengths to Work
Chapter 5.	The Questions You're Asking
	Are there any obstacles to building my strengths?	121
	Why should I focus on my signature themes?	131
	Is there any significance to the order of my signature themes?	134
	Not all of the phrases in the theme description apply to me. Why?	136
	Why am I different from other people with whom I share some of the same themes?	137
	Are any of the themes "opposites"?	139
	Can I develop new themes if I don't like the ones I have?	141
	Will I become too narrow if I focus on my signature themes?	144
	How can I manage around my weaknesses?	148
	Can my themes reveal whether I am in the right career?	160
Chapter 6.	Managing Strengths
	"Fidel," Sam Mendes, and Phil Jackson	171
	One By One	176
Chapter 7.	Building a Strengths-based Organization
	The Full Story	213
	The Practical Guide	218
	Appendix
	A Technical Report on StrengthsFinder	247

Books about: Saving the Americas or The Presidency of Franklin Pierce

Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do

Author: Studs Terkel

Studs Turkel records the voices of America. Men and women from every walk of life talk to him, telling him of their likes and dislikes, fears, problems, and happinesses on the job. Once again, Turkel has created a rich and unique document that is as simple as conversation, but as subtle and heartfelt as the meaning of our lives....

Wall Street Journal

Remarkable . . . the range is enormous. . . . Work is the theme and we learn a lot about these trades. (The Wall Street Journal)

NY Times Book Review

An enormous amount of exciting material. . . . An incredible abundance of marvelous beings. . . . A very special electricity and emotional power. (The New York Times Book Review)

True North or Nmap Network Scanning

True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership

Author: Bill Georg

True North shows how anyone who follows their internal compass can become an authentic leader. This leadership tour de force is based on research and first-person interviews with 125 of today’s top leaders—with some surprising results. In this important book, acclaimed former Medtronic CEO Bill George and coauthor Peter Sims share the wisdom of these outstanding leaders and describe how you can develop as an authentic leader. True North presents a concrete and comprehensive program for leadership success and shows how to create your own Personal Leadership Development Plan centered on five key areas:

• Knowing your authentic self

• Defining your values and leadership principles

• Understanding your motivations

• Building your support team

• Staying grounded by integrating all aspects of your life

True North offers an opportunity for anyone to transform their leadership path and become the authentic leader they were born to be.

Personal, original, and illuminating stories from Warren Bennis, Sir Adrian Cadbury, George Shultz (former U.S. secretary of state), Charles Schwab, John Whitehead (Cochairman, Goldman Sachs), Anne Mulcahy (CEO, Xerox), Howard Schultz (CEO, Starbucks), Dan Vasella (CEO, Novartis), John Brennan (Chairman, Vanguard), Carol Tome (CFO, Home Depot), Donna Dubinsky (CEO/cofounder, Palm), Alan Horn (President, Warner Brothers), Ann Moore (CEO, Time, Inc.) and many others illustrate the transitions that shape the type of leaders who will thrive in the 21st century.

Bill George (Cambridge, MA) has spent over 30 years inexecutive leadership positions at Litton, Honeywell, and Medtronic. As CEO of Medtronic, he built the company into the world’s leading medical technology company as its market capitalization increased from $1.1 billion to $60 billion. Since 2004, he has been a professor at the Harvard Business School. His 2004 book Authentic Leadership (0-7879-7528-1) was a BusinessWeek bestseller. Peter Sims (San Francisco, CA) established “Leadership Perspectives,” a course on leadership development at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and cofounded the London office of Summit Partners, a leading investment firm.

Their Web site is truenorthleaders.com.

BusinessWeek - Diane Brady

A practical, inspiring examination of the executive experience .... both memorable and perceptive .... provides plenty of fodder to help readers figure out for themselves how to become a leader.

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Nmap Network Scanning

Author: Gordon Lyon

Nmap Network Scanning is the official guide to the Nmap Security Scanner, a free and open source utility used by millions of people for network discovery, administration, and security auditing. From explaining port scanning basics for novices to detailing low-level packet crafting methods used by advanced hackers, this book suits all levels of security and networking professionals. A 42-page reference guide documents every Nmap feature and option, while the rest of the book demonstrates how to apply those features to quickly solve real-world tasks. Examples and diagrams show actual communication on the wire.

Topics include subverting firewalls and intrusion detection systems, optimizing Nmap performance, and automating common networking tasks with the Nmap Scripting Engine. Hints and instructions are provided for common uses such as taking network inventory, penetration testing, detecting rogue wireless access points, and quashing network worm outbreaks. Nmap runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Nmap's original author, Gordon "Fyodor" Lyon, wrote this book to share everything he has learned about network scanning during more than 11 years of Nmap development. Visit nmap.org/book for more information and sample chapters.