Articles tagged with: business books
Smart Lemming Rundown Podcast: February 1, 2010 (Episode 2) [10:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadThis week Lori Grant recommends three business books that help you find your core purpose in life, avoid making mistakes at work that make you look bad to your peers or manager, and learn the unwritten rules at work, giving you the upper hand with peers.
Was it about using animals to get a business lessons across? I admit that I’m not one to talk, since I use a Smart Lemming as my metaphor for proactively managing our career for success. …
December 28, 2005
Post-Christmas is always a weird time in offices. Fortunately, I have fun projects on my plate such as the corporate website redesign, the channel management function, and a new marketing position. My top …
What it is: The Levity Effect – Why It Pays to Lighten Up
What it’s about: The Levity Effect uses science to reveal how of fun and humor in work drives business results.
Rating: 4 stars
The …
December 23, 2005
Our startup is making progress on several fronts. We may be getting closer to selling off our core business, we’ve signed another deal, I’m making progress on getting another direct report, and my …
What it is: Roger Connors and Tom Smith’s How Did That Happen?: Holding People Accountable for Results the Positive, Principled Way
What it’s about: New strategies for holding people accountable while building morale.
The Good: Provides managers …
What makes a perfect summer read? The author has a strong voice while offering an extraordinary insights. The book should be a quick read that allows you to easily make changes in your life or …
Do you use the same work tools or ways of thinking over and over again only to get stale or uninspired results? One way to be happier at work is to keep learning new things …
What it is: Gostick and Elton’s The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their People, Retain Talent, and Accelerate Performance
What it’s about: This updated edition offers invaluable advice for middle managers …
I was avoiding Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Home and Officeby David Shipley and Will Schwalbe because this book was “too visible” in the stores when it was first released. I was seeing …
When you think about it, is there a book that you read, read again, and then again?
For me, that one book is Kotler on Marketing: How to Create, Win, and Dominate Markets by Philip Kotler. …
Smart Lemming Actions Items lists 10 New Book Releases to Proactively Manage Your Career Now.
What it is: Bergstrand’s Reinvent Your Enterprise.
What it’s about: Improving results - better, faster, and cheaper - in today’s Knowledge Age
The new book offers people, who are not satisfied with their organizational results, a management …
Martha Finney’s book, Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss, offers sound advice for workers, who will go through the sequence of events of facing a layoff, being laid off, and starting a job search after a layoff.
Background
Leadership Agility is a classic read for knowledge workers, managing their careers up the corporate ladder. Leadership Agility: Five Levels of Mastery for Anticipating and Initiating Change (J-B US non-Franchise Leadership) by Bill Joiner and …
