The essential guide to connecting for success.It is easy to underestimate the power of a strong business network. Many people see it as an 'optional extra' - another task to fit into an already crammed diary.However, interpersonal relationships remain at the heart of success. Unless we invest time in networking, we are limiting our ability to achieve, to grow and to develop our business. The good news is, it's never too late to start networking. In straightforward ...

Why corporate stars often lose their luster after changing jobsIt is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed. Many firms try to buy stars by luring them away from competitors. But Boris Groysberg shows what an uncertain and disastrous practice this can be.After examining the careers of more than a thousand star analysts at Wall Street investment banks, and conducting more than...

MAKE EVERY CONVERSATION A REAL CONVERSATION THAT GETS RESULTSIn Overcoming Fake Talk, business communication guru John R. Stoker offers proven advice for turning challenging confrontations into rewarding exchanges that foster collaboration, improve performance, and achieve results."Overcoming Fake Talk is a thorough compendium of ideas, frameworks, examples, and actions to improve conversations. Stoker's four 'REAL' conversation skills and ei...

A profile of Berkshire Hathaway, the keys to its success, and how it can survive beyond its iconic chairman and CEO, Warren Buffett.In a comprehensive portrait of the corporate culture that unites Berkshire's subsidiaries, Lawrence Cunningham unearths the traits that assure the conglomerate's perpetual prosperity. Riveting stories of each subsidiary's origins, triumphs, and journey to Berkshire reveal how managers generate economic value from intangibles like thrift...

A rallying cry for working mothers everywhere that demolishes the "distracted, emotional, weak" stereotype and definitively shows that these professionals are more focused, decisive, and stronger than any other force.Working mothers aren't a liability. They are assets you—and every manager and executive—want in your company, in your investment portfolio, and in your corner.There is copious academic research showing the benefits of working mothers on families and the benefit...

Our lives are getting faster and faster. We are engulfed in constant distraction from email, social media and our 'always on' work culture. We are too busy, too overloaded with information and too focused on analytical left-brain thinking processes to be creative. Too Fast to Think exposes how our current work practices, media culture and education systems are detrimental to innovation. The speed and noise of modern life is undermining the clarity and quiet that i...

This groundbreaking book reveals what it takes for managers of any generation to succeed in this fast-paced and exciting new environment.Command-and-control may have once been an effective model in managing the large numbers of cookie-cutter clones that business programs were producing faster than anyone could say “MBA,” but the rapid change and increasing complexity of the twenty-first century have rendered that model obsolete. For the most part, today’s managers ...

SAMPLE CHAPTER AVAILABLE AT: http://officeboxing.blogspot.com/p/sample-chapter-sam-saboteur.htmlLiberty Press August 2012Book ReviewBy Sheryl LeSage and William N Proctor-ArtzThis deceptively thin paperback is a genuinely helpful guide to office politics. I know what you're thinking: you're thinking that you hate office politics. And of course you do. You're a decent human being, who just wants to get your work done with a minimum of drama and as few meetings ...

With customer loyalty weighing in as the most valued commodity in the workplace today, we'd all like to know how to create lasting emotional connections to keep clients personally satisfied and eager to do business with us. In this followup to Take Charge of Your Mind John Selby presents his 4step Listening With Empathy moodmanagement method for doing just that, giving readers a practical toolkit for rapidly shifting from negative to genuinely positive moods at work, feel...

According to the Workplace Bullying Institute seven of ten U.S. employees are affected by workplace bullying. Workplace Bullying: It's Just Bad for Business is a practical guide that informs, inspires, and illicits response.Paul Pelletier, a lawyer and consultant who has faced workplace bullying himself, gives comprehensive insight on the anatomy of bullying, and how everyone in the organization is affected. The bottom line is that bullying is bad for business.Orga...

The New CEOs looks at the women and people of color leading Fortune 500 companies, exploring the factors that have helped them achieve success and their impact on the business world and society more broadly. As recently as fifteen years ago, there had only been three women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and no African Americans. By now there have been more than 100 women, African American, Latino, and Asian-American CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. Willia...

A provocative new approach to race in the workplaceWhat role should racial difference play in the American workplace? As a nation, we rely on civil rights law to address this question, and the monumental Civil Rights Act of 1964 seemingly answered it: race must not be a factor in workplace decisions. In After Civil Rights, John Skrentny contends that after decades of mass immigration, many employers, Democratic and Republican political leaders, and advocat...