books about: performances     books:       Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life173 reviews Clay Aiken, Allison Glock Random House, 2004 Incredible and Inspiring! This book is truly a masterpiece! I read this book because I am a Clay Aiken fan, and I thought, 'Hey, a book by Clay Aiken, this should be cool.' I would recommend this book for anyone! Even if you aren't a fan of Clay, this is still an inspiring book. Let's just say: I laughed, I cried, it moved me!" I'm ordering the book and the audio cds. This is one of those books that you read front to ...             Achieve Brand Integrity: Ten Truths You Must Know to Enhance Employee Performance and Increase Company Profits33 reviews Gregg Lederman B@W Press, 2007 Moving and Useful. Gregg's work has been fully implemented in our business. His work has definitively improved our culture and how we interact with our clients. We help companies move touch and inspire the world through their technology. Our culture now supports that vision. This book is a phenomenal representation of Gregg's work and ideas. Read it, read it again, then download Gregg's free iPhone App!             Finding Your Zone: Ten Core Lessons for Achieving Peak Performance in Sports and Life34 reviews Michael Lardon Perigee Trade, 2008 Finding Your Zone book Good gift for an athlete.Finding Your Zone: Ten Core Lessons for Achieving Peak Performance in Sports and Life             Hire With Your Head: Using Performance-Based Hiring to Build Great Teams57 reviews Lou Adler Wiley, 2007 Superb! This is a truly oustanding guide to the recruiting and hiring process. There are a lot of excellent books out there on this subject, but none focus as completely on the only thing that really matters - the candidate's ability to perform the job you want done. The author provides a clear blueprint for a hiring process, centered around two key questions, that helps to assure that you are only ...             Kiss Alive Forever: The Complete Touring History32 reviews Curt Gooch, Jeff Suhs Billboard Books, 2002 Very fast shipping - book arrived new and in MINT condition! I am very happy with this transaction - I got a book that nornally sells for $30.00 at any Borders or Barnes & Noble - for only a little over $5.00!! This people are the BEST! Thank you so much - bless your heart!!!!!!             Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity41 reviews Avinash Kaushik Sybex, 2009 Very well written and actionable This book was very useful for me. Recommended by a co-worker, I enjoyed reading this and learnt the importance of web analytics and what we were doing wrong in our web analytics implementation. It gave an excellent framework to apply to all web initiatives to accurately measure its value to the company. A great read.             In The SpotLight, Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking and Performing60 reviews Janet E. Esposito In The SpotLight, LLC, 2005 Loving the Spotlight! Thanks to Janet I have a journalist background, and though I am quite comfortable writing words, standing up and speaking them in a crowd was a completely different story until I discovered Janet's book a few months ago. I was preparing for a professional speaking engagement and was terrified! As I read Janet's book, I began to calm down and see that I could pull this off by applying her techniques. I love how ...             Culture Clash: Managing the Global High-Performance Team35 reviews Thomas Zweifel Select Books, 2009 Timely, timely, timely In a world of increasing globalization the timeliness and relevance of this book is what enticed me. As a director and leader of diverse international teams, this book could not come at a better time.             Less Is More: How Great Companies Use Productivity41 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 ...             Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)35 reviews Kirtikumar Deshpande, K. Gopalakrishnan McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2004 Excellent examples - easy to understand and use I read the book and was immediately able to get to the root causes of a slow running Oracle database. Very well organized.             The Heart of Coaching: Using Transformational Coaching to Create a High-Performance Coaching Culture (3rd ...24 reviews Thomas G. Crane F T A Press, 2007 Solid, Practical and Applicable Approach to Sutainable High Performance Having recently attended Tom Crane's 2010 Virtual Symposium on "The Heart of Coaching", I am prompted to share how much this practical approach to Transformational Coaching has meant to me personally and enriched the work I have done with clients in their pursuit of excellence and sustainable high performance. In addition to the Transformational Coaching Roadmap and Results Cycle, which are ...             The Complete Book of Pilates for Men: The Lifetime Plan for Strength, Power & Peak Performance29 reviews Daniel Lyon Regan Books, 2005 Yeah for Men, Yeah for Pilates I want to add my support to the general consensus that this is a great book, but I want to add a few more things. 1. The illustrations give a very precise and clear picture of correct form. Other books that use photographs might have nice glossy pages and color pictures. I find the monocromatic drawings in "The Complete Book" much more helpful. Positional details for the neck and arms are ...             Billy Collins Live: A Performance at the Peter Norton Symphony Space April 20, 200524 reviews Billy Collins Random House Audio, 2005 A welcome surprise I am not a huge fan of poetry; it's not that I dislike it; it is just not something I look for while searching for a good read. However I was convinced to give Billy Collins a try. A former Poet Laureate of the U.S., Collins' collection of poems was a delightful revelation for me. This collection of about 20 of Mr. Collins poems is read by the author. The poems are very contemporary and speak ...             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 ...             The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance25 reviews H A Dorfman Diamond Communications, 2002 Great Book My son and I find this book so helpful. Every page you find yourself learning something. I will recommended this for any serious baseball player and for those want to improved their skills mentally.             Leadership and Golf (creating Organizational Alignment) SWING to BALANCE28 reviews Thomas K Wentz, William S Wentz Corporate Performance Systems, 2002 Swing To Balance improves much more than just your drive Tom and Bill make a great team - on the golf course, of course, but even better with the writing of this book. Using the golf metaphor they show us that even the most seasoned golfers and businessmen can become better players, and more importantly, better leaders. I've read many business "novels", and to me, this book rates up with the best of them - including "The Goal". In fact, utilizing ...             Strategy Execution Heroes: Business Strategy Implementation and Strategic Management Demystified - A ...29 reviews Jeroen De Flander the performance factory, 2010 Inspiring input for practitioners! This book takes a refreshingly different approach to Strategy Execution. Most importantly, it is hands-on and presents new perspectives on known problems. Inspiring input for practitioners!             Transforming Performance Measurement: Rethinking the Way We Measure and Drive Organizational Success30 reviews Dean R. Spitzer AMACOM, 2007 Transforming Performance Measurement...and Beyond Everyone interested in practical measurement applications needs to read Dean R. Spitzer's 2007 book, Transforming performance measurement: Rethinking the way we measure and drive organizational success (New York, AMACOM). Spitzer describes how measurement, properly understood and implemented, can transform organizational performance by empowering and motivating individuals. Measurement understood ...             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 ...             Abolishing Performance Appraisals: Why They Backfire and What to Do Instead25 reviews Tom Coens, Mary Jenkins M.D Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2000 Smashing those unchallenged assumptions about appraisal. If you grapple with performance appraisal, then it might be worth thinking through the assumptions that you have built your performance appraisal system upon. And that's how Tom and Mary's book can help. They describe a series of assumptions that most performance appraisal systems are based on, and they offer up some more useful (and more reality-based) assumptions that provide the foundations ...              search for books abolishing, accountability, alignment, analytics, appraisals, centricity, companies, demystified, diagnostics, execution, guidebook, high-performance, implementation, interface, leadership, management, measurement, organizational, performance, performance-based, performing, practical, productivity, rethinking, spotlight, strategic, successful, transformational, transforming, ventriloquists books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen tools & hardware: CST/Berger 60-ELAZ35 Elevator Tripods Columns 3 1/2 x 8, 34" height range we recommend Incredible and Inspiring! home  impressum - about us