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The Human Side of Organizations (8th Edition)

Michael Drafke, Stan Kossen

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Exceeded Expectations 5 out of 5 stars.
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My textbook came sooner than expected and it was in great condition! The savings were unbelievable and I actually recommended using this seller to everyone in my class.

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"The Human Side of Organizations" delivers complete, up-to-date, practical information on how people behave in organizations presented in a readable, easy to understand form. The vital information can be used to understand managers, peers or workers. If you work, you need this information to thrive and survive.  FOCUS BOXES/Reality Checks - Bring the work world as it really is into every chapter./Question of Ethics - Presents ethical questions related to the particular chapters' material./A Global Glance - A look at an international aspect of a chapters' concepts./FYI - A new focus box for the 9e./Presents useful hints readers can apply in their daily lives. Anyone who wishes to better understand managers, peers, or workers can benefit from this book as it covers the vital skills needed to survive and thrive in an organization.

The Invisible Employee: Realizing the Hidden Potential in Everyone

Adrian Gostick, Chester Elton

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"There is magic in this book. It is the magic of a form of human engagement that allows you to see and your employees to be seen. Whether you are looking for a few good tips to keep a good thing going or need to recapture the very essence of a productive workplace, The Invisible Employee provides valuable lessons nestled among the pages of a clever and compelling story. A good read and a wise thesis."
—Stephen C. Lundin, bestselling coauthor of Fish!

"Gostick and Elton's simple-to-understand and teachable approach of setting and supporting core values and recognizing and celebrating those behaviors can be a very effective management technique for creating a committed and engaged workforce of 'visible employees.' This is a culture no organization can afford to be without."
—Michael R. Losey, past president and CEO, Society for Human Resource Management, and Secretary General, World Federation of Personnel Management Associations

"The basic principles detailed in The Invisible Employee are simple yet profound: (1) setting a guiding vision, (2) seeing employees supporting that vision, and (3) praising and celebrating that behavior. Restaurants do not sell merchandise that people can take home, we only sell memories. Engaging our entire staff by using these principles helps Friendly's provide great memories for our guests."
—John L. Cutter, CEO and President, Friendly Ice Cream Corporation

"The Invisible Employee is a very inventive and original book. Combining facts that will surprise you and a fable that will fascinate you, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton have crafted a book that educates and entertains. The Invisible Employee is a wonderful read with a powerful message, and I highly recommend it to leaders at all levels."
—Jim Kouzes, coauthor of The Leadership Challenge

The Psychology of Executive Coaching: Theory and Application

Bruce Peltier

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Coaching has become an important way for psychotherapists and other mental health professionals to adapt their skills to a changing environment. This book provides a comprehensive translation of psychotherapy theory and skills for the would-be executive coach. It was written to help clinical mental health practitioners understand the culture and expectations of the corporate and business world, as well as how to use their hard-earned skills effectively in executive coaching.

The book begins with a clear explanation of how coaching differs from counseling and how to explain this to prospective new clients. Eight chapters translate popular therapies into coaching strategies, along with a guide for assessing executives. One chapter describes the challenges women face as managers and executives and proposes effective coaching methods. Lessons from successful athletic coaches are integrated into consulting skills. Essential business school lessons in leadership, marketing, and the corporate viewpoint and vocabulary are included for the therapist seeking greater understanding of the executive's point of view. A final chapter describes how to make the transition from the world of therapy to the workplace world of the corporate coach.

Trading in the Zone : Maximizing Performance with Focus and Discipline

Ari Kiev

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Much overrated! 1 out of 5 stars.
29 of 31 people found this review helpful.

I had read Douglas's Trading in the Zone before. I had a very high expectation on this one. However, I was very disappointed.

The author emphasized throughout the book the importance of entering the zone, a state of mind that you can neglect fear, greed, P/L, and just trade according to your feeling of the market, though he supplemented that with the need of analysis, hardwork, focus blah blah blah, and that different people have different means to enter the zone, illustrated with examples anonymous. Those might be true stories. However, the author just did not tell the readers how they could do it themselves without the assistance of a coach like the author's good self.

A reviewer of this book wrote that this should be read together with Douglas's Trading in the Zone and Mc Call's The Way of the Warrior Trader. One should read those two excellent books only, but definitely not this.

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Overcome the obstacles that can prevent you from winning at the trading game

A trader's emotional state is vital to being a successful investor. There are many psychological factors that can affect the decisions one makes in the course of a trading day. This book focuses on overcoming issues such as anxiety, fear, and over-ambition so that traders can become more focused and be more successful-in other words, enter the zone-and stay in it as long as possible.

The Job Loss Recovery Guide: A Proven Program for Getting Back to Work -- Fast!

Lynn Joseph

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If you really want a job - read this book 5 out of 5 stars.
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Don't even think about it....if you are out of work, order this book now! The book is a great help, paired with the CD it is spectacular. If you have the opportunity to take a seminar with Dr. Joseph, drive all night if you have to, it is worth the time & effort to jump start your job search.

I give this system my highest recommendation, don't wait!

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Job loss is one of life's most traumatic experiences, often causing feelings of anger, anxiety, and hopelessness. These are the same painful emotions that prevent successful job-hunting. In this timely book, psychologist and Fortune 100 career transition consultant Lynn Joseph employs the same visualization techniques used by Olympic athletes to help recently laid-off people overcome their fear and doubt and get back on track professionally. Readers learn to listen to their "inner coach" and use mental rehearsal techniques that they can stop, rewind, and play back until they visualize having the perfect interview. The author's results-minded strategies show readers how to increase their confidence, motivation, and performance to make a successful reentry into the job market.

Applying Psychology

Andrew J. DuBrin

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".....a must read for leaders in business and those who want to be.."~JC Angelcraft 5 out of 5 stars.
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Andrew J. Dubrin's book, Applying Psychology, is a nice exercise in the practice of business psychology. It is a first step for those who plan to become Industrial Psychologist and most likely will be required reading in your undergraduate studies.
The hidden value of this book is that inside its pages lie a treasure chest of information that can enhance any career.

Applying Psychology 6th edition covers such important topics as how values and beliefs influence job behavior. It addresses issues of perception like how people interpret the world and why perceptual problems exist. It teaches about methods and the importance of communication in the work place and emphasizes the value of understanding yourself by helping the reader learn how to develop self-awareness.

This fine textbook is a must read for leaders in business and those who want to be. It explains the sources of motivation and offers various techniques in self-motivational techniques. It is filled with several workshops designed to reveal tendencies and personality traits that can help a leader be the best that they can be.

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For courses in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Human Relations, and Interpersonal Skills. This introduction to success in the workplace provides an accessible overview of major psychological concepts and techniques that conveys to students how to exercise a solid professional performance and achieve personal satisfaction. Approaches to perception, learning, personality, conflict and motivation are examined, as well as theories of human behavior at work. Updated to include current issues that students can relate to in everyday life, the Sixth Edition explores topics such as cross-cultural relations, working in teams, empowerment, and other relevant matters with the goal of developing an appreciation of key principles and findings of the psychology of individual behavior.

NLP at Work, Second Edition: How to Model What Works in Business to Make It Work for You (People Skills for Professionals)

Sue Knight

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Not a good book on NLP, nor a good book on work/business 1 out of 5 stars.
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Oh dear. I thought long and hard about whether I should write a review on this book.

Clearly work has gone into writing it and I did pay quite a few dollars for it, so I really wish it had been good.

But no, I have to be honest, I think it has done more to turn me off the subject of NLP than even the most skeptical write-ups on the subject.

I was looking for a book that would give me a proper guide to NLP skills I could use in the workplace or business.

This neither explained properly or simply the NLP skills, nor their application in business.

It did make an attempt, but it did the worst possible thing it could - it bored the hell out of me.

To say that NLP is meant to be software for your brain, the science and practice of human excellence and is said to be as potentially limitless as the imagination itself, this book bored my socks off.

Sorry, but I found it so dry and dull.

None of the techniques, theories, etc, seemed to be very practical or hang together, it just seems to go from one subject to another with no accumulation of value or learning, which is ironic because that is what NLP is meant to be about.

I'm no expert, but I can tell you that one of the first books I ever read on NLP doesn't go into all the dull as dishwater complexities that this book does, but it has 100 times the value. That book is Change Your Life in Seven Days by Paul McKenna (see my review). It doesn't actually even mention NLP but contains all the useful techniques without the dullness of this work, and it's much cheaper, too, with a free recorded guided mind reprogramming session which is the true power of NLP in action.

Back to this book - it seems to have little application in business and is pushing a bright and frothy agenda. Well business isn't all like that. Alot of the time it's tough stuff and I can't see anything here helping even remotely.

Yes, I know all that stuff about mirroring and matching the language and gestures of the other person, but really, unless you are extremely quick, the transactions between people are so subtle that you are not exactly likely to get some negotiation breakthrough of massive proportions by the means described here.

I have since discovered a number of books that are much more effective in outlining persuasion/negotation and communication techniques in business and blow this book out of the water.

As I say, it put me off NLP for some time. However, from other books I have seen some merit in the subject and I still have some interest in it.

I have checked out a book on Amazon called Introducing NLP and have only read the searchable pages online.

However, those few pages seemed to give more clear and compact info than the first 250 pages of NLP at work.

Even the subject matter in NLP at Work is just poorly applied to business. Modelling is apparently just copying what someone else does to get the same effect. Well I learnt how to do that at school, and it's not that revolutionary a concept.

And meta-messages. What is the overall message a business is trying to give? This is not a meta-message. This is known as corporate image/identity and again is not a revolutionary concept.

If you need tips from this book on it, in the very brief way it is mentioned, then you are probably sunk already.

The only slightly redeeming part is that the section on anchoring is reasonably well described.

However, I think this book needs to decide what it is trying to be.

If you want to give a business person, who is fresh to the subject, the tools of NLP to use in a business setting, you have to come from a business perspective.

That perspective is a practical one. One that doesn't have time to trawl through all the hokey-pokey that is dragged through here.

After all, NLP is meant to be about what works. And this book sure doesn't work for me!

Editorial Review:

Sue Knight takes a fresh look at the most recent developments in this completely revised and updated toolkit of exercises, examples, and action tips to accelerate learning, increase creativity, and manage the unpredictability of our business and personal lives.

Organizational Behavior: An Experiential Approach (7th Edition)

Joyce S. Osland, David A. Kolb, Irwin M. Rubin

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Understanding Basic Human Behavior in the Workplace 5 out of 5 stars.
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"Organizational Behavior: An Experiential Approach" has rightfully earned its reputation as a practical applied OD Classic! While traditional primary and secondary education emphasize building mental libraries of `theoretical knowledge,' Osland, Kolb, and Rubin recognize that working professionals learn through applicable experiences that address real-world challenges--thus, `an experiential approach.' I have successfully used lessons from "Organizational Behavior: An Experiential Approach" during consulting engagements in both private and public sectors, in both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, and in graduate business education. Consistently, through `experiential approaches' as described in "Organizational Behavior", adults learn more useful lessons from their experiences, learn what their lessons mean, learn how to generalize their learning for other applicable situations, AND apply more of their learning when they are back on the job. Experiential learning goes beyond merely increasing knowledge and actually changes individual (and organizational) behavior.
I highly recommend "Organizational Behavior: An Experiential Approach" for everyone working to achieve results through other people--and also for anyone seeking to better understand themselves and how they interact with other people.

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Offers the latest theories, observations, and essential experiences in organizational behavior as studied from a experimental approach. Text focuses on exercises, self-analysis techniques, and role-plays to make insights to behavioral science meaningful. Softcover. DLC: Psychology, Industrial.

Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay

Charles Perrow

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A "Must Read" for Public Administration Students 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is an extremely beneficial reading for those who have a general knowledge base of Organizational Theory. Readers who do not have any organizational theory background may consider the book esoteric. Charles Perrow's critical analysis of organizational theory identifies the general evolution of models of organizational theory and respective influence on the field of organizational theory. The book cites several case examples to help create mental hooks for the basis of each model's origin. Perrow's "Complex Organizations" is dichotomized between the schools of sociology and administration. Organizational theory is not easy to digest but this book is very easy to read and digest in just a few sittings.

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This classic in organizational theory provides a succinct overview of the principal schools of thought as it presents a critical, sociopsychological, and historical orientation to the field of organizational analysis. Vividly written, with theories made concrete by specific, student-oriented examples, it takes a critical view toward organizations, analyzing their impact on individuals, groups, and society as a whole. New chapters on economic theories of organization and the conditional power theory are among the features of this revised edition.

Teach Yourself NLP (Teach Yourself Business Skills)

Steve Bavister, Amanda Vickers

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Best intro I've found 5 out of 5 stars.
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I am certified in all levels of NLP including as a trainer (by Wyatt Woodsmall, one of the best teachers in the field). I teach a 110 hour course on the Practitioner level. My library of NLP material is quite large. There are many books on the subject. This, which I recently came across, is probably the best introduction for a beginner. It will give you the nuts and bolts, the basic concepts, in a way which will permit you to go in any direction you wish. There are many approaches to NLP out there. This is the most neutral one that I know of.

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Are you new to Neuro Linguistic Programming? Do you want a better understanding of what makes you and others tick? Are you seeking clearer goals, more effective communication and better relationships? "NLP" gives you straightforward access to understanding Neuro Linguistic Programming - the study of subjective experience - and helps you to put the ideas and techniques into practice in your personal and professional life, both in your behaviour and in your important relationships. Exercises, activities, case studies, anecdotes and quizzes are used to bring each area to life. Business-related applications will be evident throughout, and the book is relevant for anyone seeking a solid grounding in NLP and will cover NLP Practitioner level training and beyond.