books about: performance     books:       Achieve Brand Integrity: Ten Truths You Must Know to Enhance Employee Performance and Increase Company Profits32 reviews Gregg Lederman B@W Press, 2007 Stregthen the principles of your company. This book has a number of practical messages for anyone who is managing or learning how to run an organization. Unlike most books, the author explains how to implement the ideas. For my company it helped us build a foundation of principles by which everyone can live by not just talk about. The end result was a more enjoyable workplace and five star customer experience.             Less Is More: How Great Companies Use Productivity39 reviews Jason Jennings Portfolio Hardcover, 2002 On the lean culture of cost leadership firms This spring, I had a night-flight from Houston to Europe. I never got any sleep due to this book. It reads like a fiction novel while the focus is very much on the softer issues of productivity businesses. The well-written behind-the-wall stories and interviews with successful top executives give us insight to many issues that usual case stories do not explain. Business magazines often glorify ...             Transformational Change29 reviews Thomas K. Wentz Corporate Performance Systems, 1999 This is not more buzz words from a consultant I have read Tom's book twice. The second time very carefully because I wanted to be sure that I was not being seduced by the obvious. I was not. This is an addition to the literature on leading change. Many of the terms are familiar but Tom has brought them together in a way that creates a new picture of the forces that change -- and don't change -- business. I have become somewhat ...             Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life171 reviews Random House, 2004 I admire him sooo much Clay Aiken is one of the few celebrities I look up to. He has devoted fans because people see him as a friend or a brother. He is a very kind, humorous, and generous man. I am glad I read this book.             Hire With Your Head: Using Performance-Based Hiring to Build Great Teams56 reviews Lou Adler Wiley, 2007 The Definitive Guide to Hiring Top Players More than a book, this "How-To Guide" will help you hire GREAT people - every time. Hire With Your Head teaches you how to define, locate, attract, interview, assess, negotiate, and close A-players. The concepts contained in Hire With Your Head give our organization a strategic advantage over our competition. Understanding Adler's concepts are mandatory for our entire recruiting team. You can't ...             Kiss Alive Forever: The Complete Touring History27 reviews Curt Gooch, Jeff Suhs Billboard Books, 2002 So Much Information This book has all the facts and figures about Kiss concerts that I've never read anywhere else. It tells you the dates of each show, how much capacity the arena holds, what the attendance figures were, what songs were sung at most shows, in the order in which they were performed. It also has interviews with some touring personnel and their memories of the tour and/or show. I really ...             Impro (Performance Books): Improvisation and the Theatre (Performance Books)32 reviews Keith Johnstone Methuen Drama, 2007 Impro As a theater actor, this book has been a very good tool for me. It has made me a better listener which is important on the stage. Just memorizing lines is not enough. In case someone drops a line, you can immediately come to their rescue, without making them look bad, thus maintaining the scene. I highly recommend this to anyone in the theater.             In The SpotLight: Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking and Performing54 reviews Janet E. Esposito Strong Books, 2000 If you have a fear of public speaking...This is the book for you! There are a lot of self-help books on the market that deal with the fear of public speaking. But I can say first-hand that if you are looking for help in how to overcome this fear, this is the best one you can buy. The book is more than just speaking tips or techniques---it takes you right to the heart of the issue, which I found to be surprisingly helpful. It helps you understand where the ...             Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)32 reviews Kirtikumar Deshpande, K. Gopalakrishnan McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2004 Bye Bye Cache Hit Ratio This is one of my favorite books. It gives easy to understand descriptions and examples. It is a must have for tuning. It is nicely organized and highly useful in a "crisis" situation. Hats off to Kirti & Richmond and to the editors I don't have to remember everything 'cept where I put this book.             Men's Health Power Training: Build Bigger, Stronger Muscles with through Performance-based Conditioning33 reviews Robert dos Remedios Rodale Books, 2007 Needed this book in the nineties. Excellent material. The cutting edge in functional stability exercises. Recommended for all who believe that something worth doing is worth doing right!             Abolishing Performance Appraisals: Why They Backfire and What to Do Instead26 reviews Tom Coens, Mary Jenkins Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2000 A Critical Step for a Performance-Driven Organization This book becomes more relevant every year! For organizations that want responsible employees, it challenges leadership to consider the assumptions that drive traditional HR performance appraisal processes - most importantly those arising from the common `parental' or `patriarchy' model of leadership and organizational development. In this research-based analysis of the multiple purposes of ...             Dummy Days: America's Favorite Ventriloquists from Radio and Early TV26 reviews Kelly Asbury Angel City Press, 2003 Fascinating Okay, I admit it: I grew up watching Paul Winchell on TV. And my best friend carved his own dummy, and practiced ventriloquism, while I acted as "audience". So, dummies and ventriliquists formed my warped view of life, later leading to Monte Python and Firesign Theater. What makes ventriliquists fascinating is their combination of surrealism, fantasy and real-life issues, projected into their ...             Total Performance Scorecard: Redefining Management to Achieve Performance with Integrity21 reviews Hubert K. Rampersad Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003 Dr. Rampersad's processes bring organizations face-to-face with their own moral fiber "Dr. Rampersad's book is just as timely an exhortation to American business as was In Search of Excellence. In this case, the survival of corporations depends on possessing an integrity that can both fuel their drive for performance and keep it in check. Such integrity cannot be legislated by government or management. Fortunately, Dr. Rampersad's processes bring organizations face-to-face with ...             Billy Collins Live: A Performance at the Peter Norton Symphony Space21 reviews Random House Audio, 2005 Nice audiobook for poetry lovers I bought this for my poetry-loving husband. He listened to the whole thing during one day's commute and liked it alot. It definitely was worth buying because he plans to listen to it many more times.             The Complete Book of Pilates for Men: The Lifetime Plan for Strength, Power & Peak Performance20 reviews Daniel Lyon Collins, 2005 One of the best books out there! As a male I was very skeptical about Pilates. The first time I was introduced to the excercise was on t.v., during a Mari Winsor infomercial. After months of contemplating whether I should buy the videos or not, I did. The videos were no good, not enough information. I waited awhile before getting into Pilates again. Thanks to Brooke Siler I wasn't waiting that long. I bought her book and enjoyed ...             Zag: The Number One Strategy of High-Performance Brands21 reviews Marty Neumeier Peachpit Press, 2006 Zag Zag Zigidy Zag de Zag Knocked this one out in a single flight. Well written, easy to follow. Maybe a little too easy. Would have liked a little more meat. Consider this the Cliff's Notes to Differentiate or Die. Both great books, this is easier to digest. Neumeier is a brand genius, he gets it and he can present it well in a concise format.             Sink or Swim!: New Job. New Boss. 12 Weeks to Get It Right.24 reviews Milo Sindell, Thuy Sindell Adams Media Corporation, 2006 Another 5-star review from SF, jeffnc! Pay no attention to Jeffnc, the bitter reviewer from SC! I live in SF and have no idea who the Sidells are, but this book is fascinating! Follow everything they say week by week,a nd you'll get that "This is going very well" at your 90-day review just like me! What's more, you look not only super organized with this book on your desk, but also super-conscientious....I brought this book into a ...             Transforming Performance Measurement: Rethinking the Way We Measure and Drive Organizational Success21 reviews Dean R. Spitzer AMACOM, 2007 Thought Leadership This book is an excellent example of thought leadership. The concepts presented on performance measurement places a whole new lens on the subject. I congratulate Dr. Spitzer on an excellent piece of work.             Fingerstyle Guitar (Beyond Basics)23 reviews Mark Hanson Alfred Publishing Company, 1997 Great for learning to read tab and fingerpick Excellent choice to learn how to fingerpick and play songs, step by step and very well done, Mark Has many other books but I would start with this one for easing into guitar playing!!             Leadership and Golf (creating Organizational Alignment) SWING to BALANCE26 reviews Thomas K Wentz, William S Wentz Corporate Performance Systems, 2002 Everyone is Important Tom's book is a must read for all who manage more than one person. Great companies are built by those who lead by example and teach others how to lead. Swing To Balance teaches that those who feel they can do it all will do more, more easily and better, if they help others to succeed. The game of golf is THE metaphor for life!! This book is well written and and will make any airplane trip ...              search for books abolishing, alignment, appraisals, companies, conditioning, creating, diagnostics, fingerstyle, high-performance, improvisation, integrity, interface, leadership, management, measurement, organizational, overcome, performance, performance-based, performing, practical, productivity, redefining, rethinking, scorecard, speaking, spotlight, transformational, transforming, ventriloquists books:    randomly chosen In Bloom Blossoms & Buttons 160 Pieces/Boxed-40 Paper/20 Felt Flowers & ... Impressum - about us get your own free shout box