Motivating Employees _ Bringing Out the Best in Your People - Barry Silverstein [35]
Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, and Outnegotiate Your Competition
Harvey B. Mackay
In this straight-from-the-hip handbook, with almost 2 million in print, best-selling author and self-made millionaire Mackay reviews the secrets of his success.
Harvard Business Review on Motivating People
Brook Manville et al.
This book provides the perspectives of numerous thought leaders on the challenges of motivating employees, from articles that originally appeared in the Harvard Business Review.
You Can’t Win a Fight with Your Boss: & 55 Other Rules for Success
Tom Markert
This guide to surviving the pitfalls of the modern corporate environment presents 56 practical rules that you can use to find corporate success.
Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have
Justin Menkes
In this thought-provoking volume, Menkes pinpoints the cognitive skills needed to excell in senior management positions.
The Corporate Coach: How to Build a Team of Loyal Customers and Happy Employees
James B. Miller with Paul B. Brown
Founder and CEO of Miller Business Systems, Jim Miller shows how giving customers legendary services and also motivating employees make for a winning combination.
The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
David Packard
David Packard and Bill Hewlett grew their company from its start in a one-car garage to a multibillion-dollar industry. Here is the story of the vision, innovation, and hard work that built an empire.
In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies
Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr.
Based on a study of 43 of America’s best-run companies from a diverse array of business sectors, In Search of Excellence describes eight basic principles of management that made these organizations successful.
Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work
David Rock
Rock demonstrates how to be a quiet leader, and a master at bringing out the best performance in others, by improving the way people process information.
Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win
William C. Taylor and Polly G. LaBarre
Fast Company cofounder William C. Taylor and Polly LaBarre, a longtime editor at the magazine, profile 32 maverick companies in an effort to examine the “most original minds in business.”
The Cycle of Leadership: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win
Noel M. Tichy
Using examples from real companies, Tichy shows how managers can begin to transform their own businesses into teaching organizations and, consequently, better-performing companies.
The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level
Noel M. Tichy
A framework for developing leaders at all levels of an organization helps develop the next generation of leaders. This enables a company to grow from within, which is the key to excellence, stability, and building team loyalty.
The Visionary’s Handbook: Nine Paradoxes That Will Shape the Future of Your Business
Watts Wacker and Jim Taylor with Howard Means
In this book the authors show how nine paradoxes define the world’s business and social climates.
Winning
Jack Welch with Suzy Welch
The core of Winning is devoted to the real “stuff” of work. Packed with personal anecdotes, this book offers deep insights, original thinking, and solutions to nuts-and-bolts problems.
Searchable Terms
A
Albin, Marc
Albin Engineering Services Inc.
Apple Computer
Aramark
B
Bartlett, Christopher
Bennis, Warren
Best Buy
Bhatia, Sabeer
body language
Brunswick Corporation
Buchanan, Leigh
Business Research Lab
Byrne, John A.
C
Canfield, Jack
Carlson, Ed
change
system to stimulate
Charles Schwab & Co
Chrysler
Cloud, Henry
Collins, Jim
communication
get your message across
learning to communicate
learning to listen
sending your message in writing
Covey, Stephen R.
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de-motivation
reducing
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disciplinary action
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