The Japan HR Society Latest Book Recommendations for HR Professionals

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Jun — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:38:07 GMT

The subtitle of Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Broadway Business, 320 pages, $26) says it all. The book, by Chip Heath, a professor at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, and Dan Heath, a senior fellow at Duke University's Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, is about overcoming the immense difficulty of organizational change.

It is not an ordinary book about organizational change, which has been a very popular topic for management advice books over the last couple of decades. It begins by delving deep into the human psyche to examine why we all so resist change so much of the time. The authors argue that if we can learn some fundamentals of how our minds function, we can do better overcoming our opposition to change. We can figure out how to keep our desire to improve things from being overwhelmed by our skepticism, caution and fear.

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Why Women Mean Business by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox & Alison Maitland [2008]

Jun — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:03:51 GMT

Never before has there been such a confluence of international attention to the economic importance of women and the need for policies to enable them to fulfill their potential. The position of women - as employees, consumers and leaders - is seen as a measure of health, maturity and economic viability.

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"Wink: A Modern Day Parable of Wealth Beyond Words"by Roger Hamilton

JHRS — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:10:35 GMT

This book holds the keys to your wealth. Don't put it down. The keys will remain in this book until you open it and take them out. You can open it now, but to take out the keys, first you need to find them.

The keys are in a story behind the story: A lesson behind the lesson. That means to find the keys, you need to become better at seeing. What you see will always be what you get.

Each time you read the book, you will see a little better until, one by one, you take the keys out and use them to unlock the doors to your wealth. If you work hard enough, in time you will find the final key. This is referred to throughout the story, and it is the biggest key by far. It unlocks the door to wealth beyond words. Time is your greatest asset, and your wealth awaits.

So don't waste another minute. Don't question. Just read this book. Read it now. Read it and grow rich....

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"Financial Intelligence for HR Professionals: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers [2008]" by Berman, Knight, and Case

Jun — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:58:24 GMT

A MUST read book for all HR professionals wanting to become a true "business partner." Know the numbers that matter most to the business.