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Book Nuggets, Work »

[27 Apr 2008 | 4 Comments | ]

Tell me you’ve never had a difficult boss to work for? Even if you work for yourself, I’m sure you’ve had days where you’ve hated the boss. Well, what if there were patterns of these “difficult bosses,” and, if you knew them, you could either avoid them or you could work more effectively with them. In fact, you could even work with your own “inner boss” more effectively.
Coping with Difficult Bosses
In the book Coping with Difficult Bosses, Robert Bramson not only names these difficult bosses, but he shows you how …

Book Nuggets, Effectiveness »

[27 Apr 2008 | 2 Comments | ]

I see a shortage of execution, more than I see a shortage of good ideas. What’s the next best thing you can work on and how do you’ll get your ROI? Once I started asking this question, I found the book, businessThink: Rules for Getting It Right–Now, and No Matter What, by Dave Marcum, Steve Smith, and Mahan Khalsa. What a gem! It’s a framework for disciplined thinking that balances hard-core business thinking with high intuition and emotional intelligence.
Features of the Book
The book promises solutions for the following:

Make winning strategic …

Book Nuggets, NLP »

[27 Apr 2008 | No Comment | ]

NLP is a set of techniques and strategies for modeling excellence. I use NLP for practical things from building rapport to learning success from others. The most important thing I learned from NLP is how changing your thinking, feeling, and doing, changes your results. One of the best books I’ve found for simplifying NLP into practical application is Brilliant Nlp: What the Most Successful People Know, Say and Do , by David Molden and Pat Hutchinson.
My Nuggets
Here’s my nuggets from the book so far:

Beliefs on Which NLP is Based
Eliciting a …