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The Choice

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

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Meaningful life? Meaningless life? Goldratt shows you how to ACHIEVE either one! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Goldratt explains through conversations with his daughter and reports on past TOC projects how we can all choose to live a challenging and meaningful life based on self expression and taking responsibility for our lives. He explains his belief of 'Inherent Simplicity' -- that all circumstances no matter how apparently complicated are subject to fast improvement. He explains clearly and directly how we must try to control our situations and problems by seeking the truth of what causes them rather than being at the mercy of them. Some of these concepts are also dealt with in a compelling audio seminar by Goldratt called Beyond the Goal, which is offered at a very low price on Amazon-- an incredible value Beyond the Goal: Eliyahu Goldratt Speaks on the Theory of Constraints (Your Coach in a Box)at less than $30. THE CHOICE has business and personal applications not less important than Richard Bach's ILLUSIONS Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiahand JOHNATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Money well spent.

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TOC has been successfully applied in almost every area of human endeavor, from industry to healthcare to education. And while Eli Goldratt is indeed a scientist, an educator and a business leader, he is first and foremost a philosopher; some say a genius.
He is a thinker who provokes others to do the same. Often characterized as unconventional, and always stimulating--a slayer of sacred cows-- Dr. Goldratt exhorts his readers to examine and reassess their lives and business practices by cultivating a different perspective and a clear new vision. In his latest book, The Choice, Goldratt once again presents his thought provoking approach, this time through a conversation with his daughter Efrat, as he explains to her his fundamental system of beliefs.

On Cooking

Sarah R. Labensky, Alan M Hause

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This Has Everything 5 out of 5 stars.
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If you are interested in cooking you will love this book. Anything and everything that has to do with it is in it. I own and use numerous cookbooks, but none of them compare. This book explains the "why" of technics. It goes from the basics to the complicated, from history to todays modern kitchens. From now on this will be the first cookbook I turn to. Love it!

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For Introductory Cooking, Cooking Skills or "Food Prep" courses in Culinary Arts, Food and Nutrition and Hospitality Management departments. THE definitive culinary skills textbook in the market. Organized via food "types", On Cooking 4/e teaches the "hows" and the "whys" of culinary fundamentals; supported by tested, contemporary recipes and supplement package which is second-to-none. NEW! i-COOKStudent Access is a web-based, Recipe Management Tool. Package a 40 week renewable subscription for only $10.00 with On Cooking, 4th edition. i-COOK Student Access Registration , FREE 14 day Trail! Pearson Education is proud to bring world-renowned Dorling Kindersley (DK) products to your classroom. Instantly recognized by their fascinating, full-color photographs and illustrations on every page, With Pearson, you can see DK in a whole new way! For a complete listing of titles, please visit: http://us.dk.com/pearson

What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leadership

Vince Lombardi

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Great book 5 out of 5 stars.
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Vince Lombardi Jr. brings to the forefront his father's winning formula for success in leadership and everyday life. While many examples are spoken of in terms of football, the key elements that are always there is teamwork, teambuilding and producing results. This book will benefit anyone who wants to raise the bar in their personal or professional life. I particularly liked the reoccurring idea of running the drill over and over again until it becomes second nature. I also liked how Lombardi never discriminated against anyone but everyone was judged on their ability to produce results. Lombardi also brings to the forefront that the leader's job is never secure he or she must always keep producing results.

Last but not least, he talks in length about rejuvinating activities that can help one stay focused.

It's amazing that no matter how far advanced we get socially and technologically, the core of it all are the basic fundamental principles that our parents and grandparents taught us; Dedication, Hard Work, Loyalty and Honor.

In today's society where everything fundamental is under brutal attack, it's nice to read a book to where good, wholesome principles are once again proven to be the best way to success.

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Legendary leadership lessons from the greatest football coach of all time

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Leadership continues to be one of the most trained-for skills in business today. And no figure so fully embodies the leadership qualities managers hope to cultivate in their professional and personal lives than Vince Lombardi, the greatest NFL coach of all time.

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In What It Takes to Be #1, author Vince Lombardi Jr.--America's most sought-after motivational speaker-- examines the leadership qualities that his father considered essential to success. He explores the leadership philosophy of Vince Lombardi, extracts powerful lessons about what it takes to bean effective leader, and shows how to apply those qualities to one's own life and career.

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For all business leaders, or those who aspire to leadership, What It Takes to Be #1 is a blueprint for achieving Lombardi-like success in virtually any endeavor.

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Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance

Kim S Cameron

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A short, quick read with useful strategies grounded in research 4 out of 5 stars.
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I purchased this book with hesitation, assuming it would fit the mold of other leadership fads and would wax poetic mostly using anecdotes and success stories. Happily, I was wrong. Kim Cameron has kept it to the essentials, while linking empirical research to effective leadership strategies - none of which are groundbreakingly new, but useful nonetheless. For anyone who has an interest in Appreciative Inquiry but is put off by it's new-ageiness, Cameron has drawn from similar concepts of Positive Psychology while using straightforward language any business person will find meaningful. If you're looking for more of the academic underpinnings, you may feel drawn to look up several of the studies referenced within the book for continued reading, as I did. If, on the other hand, you prefer a quick read and would appreciate having a cumulative checklist/action plan to help apply the suggested tactics, I strongly recommend this book.

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Introducing a new leadership field of the same name, Positive Leadership presents a concise, accessible and practical guide to strategies that can help leaders reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and positively deviant performance. Positive Leadership is based on analyses of organizations that have achieved levels of success that are exceptional. For example, the Rocky Flats Nuclear Arsenal closure and cleanup crew completed their assignment 60 years ahead of schedule, $30 billion under budget, and made the area 13 times cleaner than was required by federal standards. This company's achievement far exceeded every knowledgeable expert's predictions of performance--it was abnormally positive. Carefully examining organizations such as this one has helped uncover some atypical leadership strategies that enable levels of performance which exceed expectations, excel beyond the norm, and reach almost impossible levels of excellence.

Contemporary Strategy Analysis: Concepts, Techniques, Applications

Robert M. Grant

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The pre-eminent strategy text in the field on both sides of the Atlantic has been significantly updated and revised in its latest edition. Introducing students, especially MBA candidates, to the core concepts and principles of strategy, the text combines a rigorous approach to business strategy analysis with lively examples of current practice.

• Now includes thorough coverage of internet-based strategies, fresh examples of resource-based competitive advantage, additional case illustrations in every chapter, and new self-study questions
  
• Features a new two-colour design throughout with high-spec artwork
  
• Introduces students to the core concepts and principles of strategy, and offers them the tools they need to formulate and implement these
  
• Combines Grant’s renowned rigorous approach to business strategy analysis with lively examples of current practice
  
• Supported by a range of online resources, including a guide for instructors and downloadable PowerPoint slides for students, available at www.blackwellpublishing.com/grant

The Confident Leader: How the Most Successful People Go From Effective to Exceptional

Larina Kase

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"This groundbreaking book will become a classic. I'll be recommending it to all of my readers.”
-Kevin Hogan, author of The Psychology of Persuasion

New York Times bestselling author Larina Kase explains how to accomplish the things you think you can't, but really wish you could . . .

Many people who want to advance in their career or business are faced with an innate fear of change--even positive change that could move them forward. Using cutting-edge research to help readers become true leaders in their fields, Larina Kase provides strategies to help readers move out of their comfort zones and better distinguish the positive decisions and actions that will dramatically propel their success. She includes interviews with top business thinkers such as Seth Godin, Joe Vitale, Annie McKee, and Tim Sanders. Apply the lessons in this book to:

• Discover why you don’t do what you need to do
• Empower yourself and others to stay motivated
• Transform fear of change into a positive driver for success
• Face uncomfortable situations with grace and poise

“Imagine what you could accomplish with the confidence of the world’s top leaders . . . Read this book for a step-by-step plan to make it happen.”
—Dr. Joe Vitale, author of The Key

“The success of coaches, clients, and self-help aficionados, in particular, will dramatically increase after putting Larina’s powerful wisdom to work.”
—Marilee Adams, Ph.D., author of Change Your Questions, Change Your Life

Candlestick Charting For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))

Russell Rhoads

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Want to gain a trading edge with candlestick charts? Find them a little confusing? No worries! Candlestick Charting For Dummies sheds light on this time-tested method for finding the perfect moment to buy or sell. It demystifies technical and chart analysis and gives you the tools you need to identify trading patterns — and pounce!

This friendly, practical, guide explains candlestick charting and technical analysis in plain English. In no time, you’ll be working with common candlestick patterns, analyzing trading patterns, predicting market behavior, and making your smartest trades ever. You’ll discover the advantages candlestick has over other charting methods and learn the secrets of combining it with other technical indicators. You’ll also get familiar with different ways to display and interpret price action, including trend lines, support levels, resistance levels, moving averages, and complex indicators. Discover how to:

• Construct candlestick charts
• Identify and interpret basic patterns
• Trade in bull and bear markets
• Work with complex patterns and indicators
• Avoid False signals
• Understand the components of market activity
• Deal with bullish or bearish single-stick, two stick, and multistick patterns
• Identify and interpret complex patterns
• Use indicators to determine the market
• Outperform the market in any conditions

Don’t know whether to grab the bull by the horns or just grin and bear it? Read Candlestick Charting For Dummies and get it right the first time.

The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations

Dietrich Dorner

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Over-promised and under-delivered 3 out of 5 stars.
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The book got my juices flowing in the first chapter, especially with the reference to human interaction with dynamic systems and the tendency to "oversteer". I wrote my doctoral dissertation over 30 years ago on just such a phenomenon as applied to the broiler industry (yes, chickens), which behaves as an underdamped servomechanism. (I'm an engineer).

However the early promise of the book didn't bloom as I'd hoped. Rather than use real world examples, all of the author's principles are drawn from simulated experiments. As a doctoral student I was subjected to many simulated business game situations, and while they can be made complex to third and fourth generation consequences, life is more complex than that (think The Tipping Point and Jim Burke's The Pinball Effect).

The effort to draw principles in the last chapter suffered two defects: there are too many of them and they are shallowly explained in terms of real-world usefulness.

While I think the book is worth reading, it over-promised and under-delivered. I'd recommend speed reading it for high level content and avoid getting bogged down in the simulations. I highlight as I read, and the highlighting became less and less as the book wore on. That's the best evidence I have on the value of a book to me when I finish reading it and review my highlighting and notes.

A much more practical book (for me) was Managing the Unexpected by Karl Weick and Kathleen Sutcliffe.

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Why do we make mistakes? Are there certain errors common to failure, whether in a complex enterprise or daily life? In this truly indispensable book, Dietrich Dörner identifies what he calls the “logic of failure”—certain tendencies in our patterns of thought that, while appropriate to an older, simpler world, prove disastrous for the complex world we live in now. Working with imaginative and often hilarious computer simulations, he analyzes the roots of catastrophe, showing city planners in the very act of creating gridlock and disaster, or public health authorities setting the scene for starvation. The Logic of Failure is a compass for intelligent planning and decision-making that can sharpen the skills of managers, policymakers and everyone involved in the daily challenge of getting from point A to point B.

Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business

David Edery, Ethan Mollick

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"Executives who still insist on all work and no game play won't just be running dull workplaces; they will also be running less profitable ones too." --The Economist on Changing the Game "Video games are now far from a mere diversion to kill time being amused. This book amply illustrates how we can get mental, social, and business benefits from new ways to play." --Trip Hawkins, founder of Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company, and Digital Chocolate "Mollick and Edery have provided leading-edge analysis of the interaction between gamers, hackers, and the world of business. A must-read for anyone in the gaming business, those considering entering it, and those who want to understand what games have to teach us about engagement, learning, and innovation." --Karim Lakhani, Assistant Professor and Richard Hodgson Fellow at Harvard Business School, Faculty Fellow at the Berkman Center of Harvard Law School "Changing the Game is a fun read, but more than that, it gives HR professionals like myself the tools to understand how to recruit, train, and retain a new generation of workers using a wide range of new techniques drawn from the world of video games."--Lindsay Nadler, Director, Human Resources, Miramax Films "You will be more 'ready to play' after you read this game-changing book, which explores how computer and video games are transforming business and marketing practices. David Edery and Ethan Mollick offer a far-reaching and richly detailed account which touches on everything from product placements and advergaming to the use of games for corporate training and harvesting user innovation." --Henry Jenkins, Codirector of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program, author ofConvergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide Use Video Games to Drive Innovation, Customer Engagement, Productivity, and Profit! Companies of all shapes and sizes have begun to use games to revolutionize the way they interact with customers and employees, becoming more competitive and more profitable as a result. Microsoft has used games to painlessly and cost-effectively quadruple voluntary employee participation in important tasks. Medical schools have used game-like simulators to train surgeons, reducing their error rate in practice by a factor of six. A recruiting game developed by the U.S. Army, for just 0.25% of the Army's total advertising budget, has had more impact on new recruits than all other forms of Army advertising combined. And Google is using video games to turn its visitors into a giant, voluntary labor force--encouraging them to manually label the millions of images found on the Web that Google's computers cannot identify on their own. Changing the Game reveals how leading-edge organizations are using video games to reach new customers more cost-effectively; to build brands; to recruit, develop, and retain great employees; to drive more effective experimentation and innovation; to supercharge productivity!in short, to make it fun to do business. This book is packed with case studies, best practices, and pitfalls to avoid. It is essential reading for any forward-thinking executive, marketer, strategist, and entrepreneur, as well as anyone interested in video games in general.* In-game advertising, advergames, adverworlds, and beyond Choose your best marketing opportunities--and avoid the pitfalls *Use gaming to recruit and develop better employees Learn practical lessons from America's Army and other innovative case studies *Channel the passion of your user communities Help your customers improve your products and services--and have fun doing it *What gamers do better than computers, scientists, or governments Use games to solve problems that can't be solved any other way

Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions

Gary Klein

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Anyone who watches the television news has seen images of firefighters rescuing people from burning buildings and paramedics treating bombing victims. How do these individuals make the split-second decisions that save lives? Most studies of decision making, based on artificial tasks assigned in laboratory settings, view people as biased and unskilled. Gary Klein is one of the developers of the naturalistic decision making approach, which views people as inherently skilled and experienced. It documents human strengths and capabilities that so far have been downplayed or ignored.

Since 1985, Klein has conducted fieldwork to find out how people tackle challenges in difficult, nonroutine situations. Sources of Power is based on observations of humans acting under such real-life constraints as time pressure, high stakes, personal responsibility, and shifting conditions. The professionals studied include firefighters, critical care nurses, pilots, nuclear power plant operators, battle planners, and chess masters. Each chapter builds on key incidents and examples to make the description of the methodology and phenomena more vivid. In addition to providing information that can be used by professionals in management, psychology, engineering, and other fields, the book presents an overview of the research approach of naturalistic decision making and expands our knowledge of the strengths people bring to difficult tasks.