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Book Reviews
It can be difficult to find just the right book to enhance your learning and help you grow. These books may provide you with the knowledge or skills that will help advance you to the next level.
 The Seven Secrets to Create Your Fate by Sharman Lane
Sharmen Lane’s The Seven Secrets to Create Your Fate is a short, simple, and powerful personal growth and self improvement book. It gives you the tools and step-by-step instructions to take action and get what you want, NOW! It’s clear, concise, and to the point, so you can quit talking and start doing to get everything you desire. The Seven Secrets to Create Your Fate gives you the power to get off the sofa and onto the set of life!
"I read your book, then read it again and followed the steps. It was that easy and literally my life started to change for the better... Once I found happiness I started to find happy people... ...I can honestly tell you life began when I read your book. How can I ever thank you?!?"
- Alan Oberlander, Author & Entrepreneur
You can learn more by visiting SharSpeaks LLC.
 Split Second Selling by Drew Stevens
Split Second Selling shows you how to increase your sales. Based on over 26 years of experience, Drew Stevens provides a simple and easy to use formula to get you from the starting line to the finish line. Drew has condensed the myriad of selling concepts and ideas into a simple and easy to remember formula known as PRACTICE™. Just like athletes and musicians that practice you too, must PRACTICE!
Split Second Selling shows you how to:
- Quickly reach decision makers
- Understand how to get around objections
- Close sales quicker
- Communicate more effectively with the decision makers
- Develop a strategic plan that provides repeat sales.
You can learn more by visiting Drew Stevens Consulting.
 Leadership Redefined by Todd Dewett, Ph.D.
Forget what you have learned about leadership. You do not have to be charismatic. You must find a way to communicate effectively whether or not you are charismatic. You do not have to treat everyone equally. You must be positive and fair while recognizing and rewarding others based on performance. You do not have to always create harmony. You must know when and how to create conflict. Leadership Redefined moves past the hype about leadership and focuses on what matters the most: the core skills required for success in cubicleland. Common sense and piles of research tell us that successful leadership is about nailing the basics.
To that end, Leadership Redefined identifies the three underlying rules of leadership from which all other rules and tactics flow. These rules are used to illuminate several key aspects of successful daily leadership.
All this and more is served up in a fast, lively and practical style by noted leadership expert, Dr. Todd Dewett. His huge personality and professional work have resulted in quotes in many major media outlets including the New York Times, BusinessWeek, CNN, Chicago Tribune, MSNBC, the Christian Science Monitor.
Actual reader reviews:
"This book is funny, full of ideas, and so dang true about the day to day life in cubicleland. I love how it's not for top executives per say but for the mid level managers/leaders who make so many important day to day decisions."
"The analysis of several concepts would seem so easy, but like Dewett says, we still mess them up every day. This book has helped me realize how to handle so many situations already today at work. It's a great feeling to be able to think about real names and situations where his rules apply!"
"I love it, and I think I'm going to read it again - after I let one of my MBA buddies borrow it of course!"
"I would suggest it to all business folks living in cubicleland!"
- Betsy Kreig, MBA
You can learn more by visiting www.drdewett.com.
 Yes You Can! Everything You Need from A to Z to Influence Others to Take Action - by Stacey Hanke
In Yes You Can! Everything You Need from A to Z to Influence Others to Take Action, Stacey Hanke reminds us that without effectively communicating our message, we inhibit our maximum potential to:
- Increase sales and profits.
- Cultivate long-term relationships.
- Prevent misunderstandings.
In fact, physical actions we all do unconsciously (that undermine our effectiveness and professional image) can get in the way of our potential.
Yes You Can explains the positive actions you can take to increase your impact and value to your peers, customers, and business associates. Stacey gives you immediate and practical tools to influence your listeners to take action on what you have to say and build stronger relationships. The face-to-face situations addressed throughout the book are the meetings you hold, the presentations you give to groups, the face-to-face hallway conversations you have, the conference calls, and any others when you are asking people to take action.
 Remarkable Leadership -
By Kevin Eikenberry
Remarkable Leadership: Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time by Kevin Eikenberry is a book written for all leaders, regardless of their tenure and experience. Actually, this isn't quite right. It is written for leaders who want to continue to improve, continue to advance, and continue to make a greater contribution as a leader.
If this defines you, this book will help you on your path towards remarkable success as a leader. This book outlines a framework and a mechanism for both learning new things and applying current knowledge in a thoughtful and practical way. It provides a guide through the most important leadership competencies, offers a proven method for learning leadership skills, and shows approaches for applying these skills in today’s multitasking and overloaded world of work. The book explores real-world concerns such as focus, limited time, incremental improvement, and how we learn.
Specifically, the book offers a number of features that make it a “workshop in a book” as it was described by one reviewer. These features include:
- A self assessment at the start of each chapter to help you see where you stand on that competency. This assessment helps you read in a more effective and focused manner.
- Now Steps. Throughout each chapter there are sets of Now Steps - specific things that you can do to apply the ideas contained immediately in your work as a leader.
- Bonus Bytes. Readers are offered over 50 additional practical resources called Bonus Bytes - accessed from a special website with keywords provided in the book.
You can learn more about the book, and download excerpts and a sample chapter at http://RemarkableLeadershipBook.com.
 Bridging the Generation Gap
by Dr. Linda Gravett and Robin Throckmorton
This is a practical, hands-on approach to building effective communications and reducing conflict across the generations. The book is full of case studies and practical experiences with recommendations for minimizing the gap across generations.
 The Intersection of Joy and Money
by Mackey McNeil
The Intersection of Joy and Money, was named the most life-changing book of the year. The Intersection of Joy and Money helps you bring personal power to your relationship with money by taking five paths of self-discovery and self-actualization.
Path one consists of self-referencing and conscious choice. Path two is responsibility and reality. The third path is goals and strategies. Path four focuses on congruent action. And the fifth path is reassessment. By following the five paths and implementing the tools included in this workbook, money fantasies such as time is money and debt is bad are transformed into money truths. Use this workbook to create and enjoy your personal wealth. May you find more joy!
"I gave a copy of ‘The Intersection of Joy and Money’ to my 19-year-old son for Christmas. It is difficult to get him to read anything unless it is related to cars. He ended up taking Mackey’s book and the Dictionary with him to Europe. He said he’d be back in a year and that these are the two books he needs to ‘get smart.’"
- Terri Bonar-Stewart
"Mackey is a great voice. The Intersection of Joy and Money is a true workbook that I have used…and that I have given to my clients to use…to become clear on the choices and patterns we have around money.”
- Audrey Godwin, CPA & Founder, The Godwin Group
"I personally have been on a prosperity mission ever since reading Mackey’s book. I've begun to explore where my old beliefs and patterns originated, and now I am creating healthier habits."
- Rosie Merkt, Reflexologist
'Mackey's book aligns with the greater wisdom of the world and what we teach in our Tantra Heart Yoga classes. Key concepts that involve living in the present moment, self responsibility, becoming aware of your energy body and creating dynamic power."
- Antoinette Asimus, Co-owner, Tantra Heart
You can learn more by visiting CultivatingProsperity.com.
 The Change Management Pocket Guide
by Kate Nelson and Stacy Aaron
Kate Nelson and Stacy Aaron provide a tactical, step-by-step guide in changing organizations, implementing projects, and sustaining new ways. Human beings naturally resist change in any form, but when resistance begins eating into a company’s performance and bottom line, managers and leaders find themselves floundering. This acclaimed pocket guide, The Change Management Pocket Guide: Tools for Managing Change, - an Amazon top-seller - gives the first ever tactical how-to on managing change.
Nelson and Aaron, whose deep consulting experience includes multinational Fortune 500 clients, have organized their spiral-bound guide into three clear sections: Plan Tools, Do Tools, and Sustain Tools. By using these tools and the many checklists, how-tos, and tips, organizational change becomes actions, not aspirations. (If you like this top-seller on Amazon, be sure to check out Nelson’s and Aaron’s book, The Eight Constants of Change.)
"Finally! A resource about HOW to manage change!...The tools are easy to use, thorough, and - most importantly - very effective. The Change Management Pocket Guide is an invaluable resource for anyone trying to drive change."
- L. Kennedy Jr., CFO, Health Carousel
"A great resource for anyone serious about change in a corporate environment... I highly recommend this guide."
- E. Barkley, performance consultant, Ed Barkley & Associates
"...the tools and tips in this book have become an important part of my approach...If you manage people and teams, if motivating and influencing others are critical to your success, then I suggest you buy one for your pocket - and for the pockets of everyone on your team!"
- S. Callihan, Amazon customer, Cincinnati, Ohio
 The Eight Constants of Change
by Kate Nelson and Stacy Aaron
Kate Nelson and Stacy Aaron do it again (The Change Management Pocket Guide: Tools for Managing Change) by bringing simplicity and order to a complex topic: organizational change. While change is not easy, this straightforward and fun read makes learning about change a breeze.
The Eight Constants of Change outlines the fundamental truths about changing organizations and guiding leaders in achieving their manageable goals. Internationally known change agents Aaron and Nelson include tips on how to work with the eight constants, mitigate their impact, and use them to your advantage. By employing these eight constants of change, you'll immediately begin to see improvement in employee morale, efficiency, and your bottom line. Armed with the eight constants of change, leaders will more effectively and efficiently drive change and win.
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