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  • Strategy to Action in 10 Days: Creating High Performance Organizations

    03 Mar 2011 16:47 | Jun (Administrator)

    Keeping your organization on top in today’s competitive business environment requires that everyone, from the janitor to the CEO, operate at the highest levels. High performance is no longer a competitive advantage – it is a survival necessity! Can you take your business from high performance strategy to action in just 10 days?


    Yes! If you read this revolutionary book and master its secrets.

    •  Implement new ideas throughout your organization faster than you ever thought possible
    •  Discover the science of strategic change by taking advantage of the latest research in positive deviance, fair process, neuroscience and mass customization
    •  Use persuasive technology to create change throughout an organization without the need for traditional training programs

    This radical, scientific approach to organizational and personal innovation is field tested and not just theory. It has already produced significant results in a variety of organizations and industries. It can do the same in yours!

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  • The 7 Arts of Change by David Shaner

    21 Oct 2010 18:07 | Jun (Administrator)

    Many businesses try to change...but few succeed.

    At best, a few buzzwords and new reports become part of the company’s structure. At worst, programs crash and burn, and everyone becomes irreparably disillusioned with the revolving door of new-mission statements. According to David Shaner, a business consultant with a 100% success rate of change at companies including Duracell, Frito-Lay, Ryobi, and Gillette, the problem is that the implemented changes don’t address either individuals or the corporate culture. They’re only on the surface.

    Combining lessons drawn from four decades of Aikido with knowledge gleaned from his 30-year consulting career, Shaner merges Eastern philosophy with Western business savvy to present his Seven Arts of Change (including the Arts of Preparation, Relaxation, and Compassion), showing how individual adjustments from CEO down can transform a company.

    Using exercises, strategies and real-life examples to show how to awaken the untapped potential in any organization and every person within it, Shaner shows how to create change built to last.

    SPECIAL OFFER TO JHRS MEMBERS:

    Buy this book for only Y1,498 (shipping included and for all payment options except for COD or cash-on-delivery), ie, 15% OFF from its listed price for the first 100 copies of the book.

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  • The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why by Richard Nisbett

    09 Oct 2010 09:45 | Jun (Administrator)
    This is a groundbreaking research in cultural psychology, addressing questions such as:
    • Why did the ancient Chinese excel at algebra and arithmetic, but not geometry, the brilliant achievement of such Greeks as Euclid?
    • Why do East Asians find it so difficult to disentangle an object from its surroundings?
    • Why do Western infants learn nouns more rapidly than verbs, when it is the other way around in East Asia?
    At a moment in history when the need for cross-cultural understanding and collaboration have never been more important, The Geography of Thought offers both a map to that gulf and a blueprint for a bridge that might be able to span it. Buy the book here.
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  • Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

    28 Jul 2010 11:35 | Jun (Administrator)


    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]

    26 Jan 2010 13:58 | Jun (Administrator)

    Why Women Mean Business.jpgNever 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

    11 Jan 2010 12:00 | JHRS (Administrator)
    Wink Book.jpgThis 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

    17 Dec 2009 17:53 | Jun (Administrator)
    Financial Intelligence for HR.jpg
    A MUST read book for all HR professionals wanting to become a true "business partner." Know the numbers that matter most to the business.
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