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Little Gold Book of YES!Attitude
by Jeffrey Gitomer. A must read book by everyone. Every business winner has one thing in common: a YES! Attitude that's powerful enough to help them achieve the impossible! When you've got a YES! Attitude, you assume everything will start with "YES!" ...and you'll find a way to "YES!" even when the first, second, and third answer you hear is "NO!" You say you weren't born with a YES! Attitude? No problem! Jeffrey Gitomer will give you all the tools you need to build one.(FT Press; 2006) |
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The Last Lecture
by Randy Pausch. One of the most inspiring books that motivates you to learn some basic life-rules that will improve your life immediately! (Hyperion; 2008) |
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Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
by Seth Godin. Are you a manager or a leader. The world needs more leaders. This great book describes the need and how you can fill the void.(Portfolio; 2008) |
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You, Inc.
by Harry & Christine Beckwith. It really is all about you and improving the way you present yourself. This is a great primer or reminder. Of course my only correction would be that sending holiday cards is important. (Business Plus; 2007) |
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The Strangest Secret
by Earl Nightingale. If you really want to change your life, listen to this recording once a day for 3 months ... then you can go to every other day. Really listen. With each listen, you will hear, and interpret something new that will improve your life. (Keys Company Inc; 1999) |
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Meatball Sundae
by Seth Godin. Though this is a marketing book, this book clearly shows how your brand could be out of sync with all the new ways to get known. (Portfolio; 2007) |
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
by Stephen R. Covey. This book remains on the top business books because he summarizes the great simple tasks to success.(Free Press; 2004) |
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Made To Stick
by Chip and Dan Heath. This book is FANTASTIC. It provides great insight on why some ideas stick. Apply these traits to ensure that your ideas stick! (Random House; 2007) |
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Purple Cow
by Seth Godin. Forget about having your busines stand out...use this to help you stand out and be wanted by all! Commodity is boring. Be unusual...stand out and be talked about. (Penquin; 2003) |
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Naked Conversations
by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. This book talks about the impact and need for blogs in this new social technological environment. (Wiley; 2006) |
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Blogging For Business
by Shel Holtz and Ted Demopoulos. If you want to create a blog and get it noticed, follow the basic steps clearly described in this book.(Kaplan Business; 2006) |
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The Sales Bible
by Jeffrey Gitomer. This is an updated version of his first book. Everyone must learn sales. This book outlines the basic steps. (Collins Business; 2008) |
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The Levity Effect
by Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher. Yes, laughter pays. Just learn how to do it right. (Wiley; 2008) |
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell. Don't sweat the small stuff...do them! A Business Book best seller that can inspire you to build better relationships with concentration on some small stuff.(Back Bay Books; 2000) |
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Between Trapezes:Flying Into a New Life with the Greatest of Ease
by Gail Blanke. Thinking about changing careers but do not know what you want to do. Gail has an easy way to calm nerves and help you think this through.(Rodale Books; 2004) |
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The Law of Success In Sixteen Lessons by Napoleon Hill (Complete, Unabridged) (Paperback)
by Napoleon Hill. The wisdom in this book is timeless, and will definitely show you where you may have been unconsciously blocking abundance in your life, as well as the character beneath to sustain it with a pure conscious.
(bnpublishing.com; 2007) |
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The Brand Called You
by Peter Montoya and Tim Vandehey. This basic and easy to read book concentrates on the old but needed task of name recognition.(Personal Branding Press; 2003) |
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Customer Satisfaction is Worthless/Customer Loyalty Is Priceless
by Jeffrey Gitomer. Everyone needs to provide value to someone. This valuable book gives the basics on how to improve any business relationship. (Bard Press; March, 1998) |
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Selling 101
by Zig Ziglar. If you don't think you need to understand how to sell, think again! You must sell your ideas, strategy, and approach to team members, the business community, your manager, stockholders, family and friends. Be better than most the sales people you meet by learning the basic skills that only the top 5% actually implement! (Thomas Nelson Publishing, 2003). |
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How To Win Friends and Influence People
by Dale Carnegie. If you do not take the 10 week course, at least read this book. The book describes the basic's of relationship building. Dale Carnegie had an understanding of human nature that will never be outdated. (Pocket, 1998) |
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Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing
by Harry Beckwith. This book is about establishing and then nourishing relationships, not only with clients and prospective clients but also with almost everyone else within a given marketplace. . (Business Plus, 1997) |
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Little Black Book of Connections
by Jeffrey Gitomer. IT people could benefit by learning the social skills of people networking. Jeffrey's book provides basic ways for you to network to build very successful and long-term relationships. (Bard Press, 2006) |
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Career Warfare: 10 Rules for Building a Successful Personal Brand and Fighting to Keep It
by D'Alessandro. Defining your brand is one of the keys to your success at work. This book provides some key rules to help you along the way from a vast amount of experience.(McGraw-Hill, 2003) |
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Little Green Book of Getting Your Way
by Jeffrey Gitomer. It is true, writing leads to wealth. This book tells you how to speak, write, present persuade, influence, and sell your point of view to others. Need to understand the basic steps to improve your careeer, read this book...twice.(Bard Press, 2007) |
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The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You to Quit (and When to Stick)
by Seth Godin. Great insight that makes you think in a world where quitting is something that others typically frown upon. (Portfolio, 2007) |
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Little Red Book of Selling
by Jeffrey Gitomer. Jeffrey's 12.5 principles of Sales Greatness discussed how to make sales FOREVER. Remember, that you must know sales in order to convey your brilliant ideas. (Bard Press, 2005) |
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AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis
by William Brown, Raphael Malveau, Skip Hays and Tom Mowbray. A recommended book featuring the format for use of the anti-pattern, as discussed in our Tip of the Month. (William Brown, Raphael Malveau, Skip Hays and Tom Mowbray, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001). |
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Nine Steps to Delivering Defect-Free Software
by Terence M. Colligan of Tenberry Software is an excellent article from someone who has been there! Setting your own goals for
delivering defective anything (in this case code) has such an impact on what we do. Bottom line: start believing and it can happen.
Believing it can't happen just continually lowers your expectations. |
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Are
Your Lights On is an excellent book assisting Requirements
Engineers on identifying the right problem. (Don Gause & Gerald
Weinberg, Dorset House, 1990). |
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Capability
Maturity Model provides an overview into the SoftwareEngineering
Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) first developed
by Watts Humphrey. (Mark C. Paulk, Bill Curtis, Mary Beth /
Chrissis, and Charles V. Weber, SEI, 1993). |
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Complete
Systems Analysis provides a great tutorial about analyzing
systems. (James & Suzanne Robertson, Dorset House, 1994).
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Creating
A Software Engineering Culture provides the basics for any
level manager in Information Technology on how to institute a
software engineering culture. (Karl Wiegers, Dorset
House, 1994). |
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Data
Replication: Tools & Techniques for Managing Distributed
Information provides a step-by-step guide to replicated data
implementation. The book covers everything from technologies and
terms to design approaches used by major vendors.
(Marie Buretta, John Wiley & Sons, inc., 1997). |
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Exploring
Requirements is the number one book for anyone interested
in understanding requirements. (Gerald Weinberg & Don Gause,
Dorset House, 1989). |
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IEEE Standards Collection on Software
Engineering should be on every persons desk as a reference to
all software engineering standards. Some of the standards
include: Project Management, Requirement Specification (System
& Software), Software Configuration Management, etc.
(IEEE, 1999). Currently available through IEEE.
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Managers Toolbox-4 Parts was originally
a newsletter published by the Type Reporter. This particular
4 part series discusses the pro's and con's of a manager with
a specific MBTI TM preferences. (Type Reporter, 1989). Currently
available through Center for Application of Psychological Type,
inc. (CAPT). |
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Mythical
Man Month has reached its 25th anniversary. The book,
surprising enough is as applicable today as it was 25 years ago.
(Frederick J. Brooks, Addison-Wesley, 1995). |
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Psychology
of the Computer Programming has also reached its 25th anniversary.
It is still today, Jerry's best selling book that is applicable
today as it was throughout the last 25 years. (Gerald Weinberg,
Dorset House, 1998). |
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The Elements of Style (Coyote Canyon Press Classics) (Paperback) has also reached its 25th anniversary.
It is the grammar book everyone that is grammar-literate tells me is a must have on your bookshelf. It has helped me. by William Strunk. (Coyote Canyon Press; Original edition; 2007) |
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Practical
Project Management: Restoring Quality to DP Projects and Systems
is the book we recommend to new project managers. (Meiler
Page-Jones, Dorset House, 1985). |
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Out
of the Crisis is a must read by anyone interested in improving
quality. A book for managers describes what is needed to
regain the competitive position. (W. Edwards Deming, MIT/CAES,
1986). |
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Quality Software Management-4 Volumes
(V1:
Systems Thinking, V2:
First-Order Measurement, V3:
Congruent Action, V4:
Anticipating Change) Jerry Weinberg has contributed so much
to the Information Technology field. Each of the four volumes
addresses important software development issues that affect the
quality of the project. (Gerald Weinberg, Dorset House,
1997). |
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Type
Talk At Work: How the 16 Personality Types Determine Your
Success On the Job introduces the MBTI TM and its effect on
the office interactions. (Otto Kroeger & Janet M. Thuesen,
Delacorte Press, 1992). |
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Working
Together: A Personality Centered Approach to Management
introduces the MBTI TM is a concise and clear manner. (Olaf
Isachses, Ph.D. & Linda V. Berens, Ph.D., Neworld Management
Press, 1991). |
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