Fish! & Fish Tales

One subject, two great books!

Imagine a workplace where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion and a positive attitude to the job everyday. Imagine and environment in which people are truly connected to their work, colleagues and customers. In this engrossing parable, a fictional manager must transform a chronically unenthusiastic and unhelpful department into an effective team. Down the street from her office, Seattle's very real Pike Place Fish is wildly successful thanks to its fun, bustling atmosphere and great customer service. By applying ingeniously simple lessons learned from the actual Pike Place fishmongers, our manager discovers how to energise those who report to her and effect an astonishing transformation in the workplace.

Addressing today's most pressing work issues with an engaging metaphor that applies to anyone in any organisation, Fish! offers an easy to grasp, profound wisdom - the hallmark of a true business classic.

Lundin (Hodder Mobius)

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

This is a holistic, integrated, principle centred approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity.

Habit 1 - Be proactive

Habit 2 - Begin with the End in Mind

Habit 3 - Put First Things First

Habit 4 - Think Win/Win

Habit 5 - Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood

Habit 6 - Synergize

Habit 7 - Sharpen the Saw

These principles give us the security to adapt to change, and wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

Stephen Covey (Simon & Schuster)

Gung Ho!

Every day, thousands of uninspired employees trudge to work, often dooming their companies to failure with their lack of motivation.

This book outlines foolproof ways to increase productivity by fostering excellent morale in the workplace. Revealing a sure-fire system for boosting employee enthusiasm, energy and performance.

Written in the style of the "One Minute Manager' series, it is based on three core ideas to ensure that employees are committed to success and presents a clear game-plan for implementing them.

Ken Blanchard (Harper Collins)

The New Leaders

Goleman's international bestseller 'Emotional Intelligence' forever changed our concept of 'being smart', proving that emotional intelligence (EI) - how we handle ourselves and our relationships - matters more than IQ, technical skill and educational success.

Now he explores the consequences of EI for leaders and organisations. Linking organisational success or failure to 'primal leadership'. In this book he argues that a leader's emotions are contagious, and must resonate energy and enthusiasm if an organisation is to thrive.

Daniel Goleman (sphere)

Good to Great

The best-selling and much talked about, since it was published in 2001, answers the compelling question: 'Can a good company become a great company, if so, how?'

After a five-year research project, he concluded that good to great can and does happen. In this book, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organisation to make the leap from good to great while other organisations remain only good. Rigorously supported by evidence, his findings are surprising - at times even shocking - to the modern mind.

Good to Great achieves a rare distinction, a management book full of vital ideas that reads as well as a fast paced novel.

Jim Collins (Random House)

Coaching for Performance

Now in a new, expanded and fully revised third edition, this bestselling handbook will help you learn the skills - and the art - of good coaching, and realise its enormous value in unlocking people's potential to maximise their own performance.

Adopted by many of the world's major corporations, this easy to use title argues persuasively for:

• Using effective questions rather than instructions or commands to raise awareness and responsibility
• Following the GROW sequence - Goals, Reality, Options, Will - to generate prompt action and peak performance
• The growing need to relate to the individual's sense of meaning and purpose

and examines why:

• Coaches now need enhanced skill levels
• Coaching is the essential team leadership skill

John Whitmore (Nicholas Brealey)

Leadership and self-deception

You might think you are a people person. But are you really having the right effect onthose around you? Are you actually undermining success for yourself - and others?

Be prepared to have your world turned upside down and ope your eyes to a whole new way of living and working.

Throught a series of entertaining stories, this book will reveal how most of us are not fulfilling our potential - in our personal lives and at work - because of 'self-deception'. It will show you how to escape your box of self-deception, and change for the better in a lasting way:

• Don't focus on what others are doing wrong. Do focus on what you can do to help.
• Don't worry whether others are helping you. Do worry whether you are helping others.
• Don't try to be perfect. Do try to be better.

The Arbinger Institute (Penguine)

Learn to manage the 'Gurus' - who's who

'Gurus' to look out for or read up on are:

Richard Pascal and Anthony B Athos - 'The Art of Japanese Management'

McKinsey - 'Seven S Model'

Peter Drucker - 'Flatter Mangement Structures'

Tom Peters - 'Thriving on Chaos'

Tom Peters & Robert Waterman - 'In Search of Excellence'

Michael Porter - 'The Competititve Advantage'

George Stalk Jnr & Thomas M Horr - 'Competing Against Time'

Rosabeth Moss Kanter - 'When Giants Learn to Dance'

John Harvey-Jones - 'Managing to Survive'

John Harvey-Jones - 'Making it Happen'

John P Kotter - 'A Force for Change'

Peter M Senge - 'The Fifth Discipline'

Warren Benn - 'On Becoming a Leader'

Peter Drucker - 'Managing the Non-Profit Organisation'

Peter Drucker - 'Management: Tasks Responsibilities Practices'

Peter Drucker - 'Managing for Results'

Theodore Levitt - 'Thinking about Management'

Kenneth R Andrews - 'The Concept of Corporate Strategy'

Kenichi Ohmae - 'The Mind of the Strategist'

Kenishi Ohmae - 'The Borderless World'

Charles H Kepner & Benjamin B Tregoe - 'The New Rational Manager'

Mark McCormick - 'What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School'

Henry Mintzberg - 'Mintzberg on Management'

Peter M Sluger - 'The Fifth Discipline'

Campbell & Tawardey - 'Mission and Business Philosophy'

Robet H Waterman Jnr - 'The Frontiers of Excellence'

Rober P Waterman Jnr - 'The Renewal Factor'

Geert Kofstode - 'Cultures and Organisations'

Michael Hammer & James Champney - 'Reengineering the Corporation'

John P Holter & James L Heshett - 'Corporate Culture and Performance'

Andrew Campbell, Marion Devine and David Young - 'Sense of Mission'

Henry Neave - 'The Deming Dimension'

Philip Crosby - 'Quality is Free'

Richard Whiteley - 'The Customer - Driven Company'

Improve Your People Skills

People skills are the key to success, yet they all depend on one fundamental insight: nobody knows for sure what you are thinking or feeling - they can respond only to your behaviour. Getting the best from others, therefore, means monitoring and modifying how you behave.

This key principle can decisively boost your effectiveness in the office or the boardroom, when chairing and coaching, interviewing and influencing, presenting and planning. With section on topics ranging from Bullying, Competencies, Diversity and Empowerment to Listening, Mentoring, NLP and Values.

Peter Honey (CIPD)

The Good Manager's Guide

Through the medium of a comprehensive series of practical and authoritative checklists, this book gives you the confidence to make the right decisions ... fast.

The second edition has been extensively revised and rewritten with the inculsion of over fifty brand new checklists.

Trevor Boutall (MCI)

Effective Leadership

The art of good leadership is highly prized and demands a keen ability to appraise, understand and inspire both colleagues and direct reports.

This book is carefully structured to ensure a steady, easily acquired insight into leadership skills. So you understand leadership, develop leadership abilities and grow as a leader.

Adair (Pan)

The Leadership Challenge

The first edition was seminal and totally original. It became a modern classic on leadership practically overnight. With this new edition, with new cases and concepts and action steps that are even riper and more important, Kouzes and Posner go way beyond their earlier work and have made yet another brilliant contribution to leadership studies. This new book, a product of an unusual collaboration, is essential reading for everyone involved or concerned with leading.

Kouzes & Posner (Jossey-Bass)

What Color is Your Parachute?

When people tell my they are reviewing their life and/or their career I pretty much know what is coming next. It is a question about what book can I recommend that may help. Well, for all those people who have asked or who are about to .......... here it is.

This is that book! It has been the job-hunting classic for decades, and is updated by Bolles each rear.

After I read it 1996 (and working through a dozen of the exercises) I knew that it should be required reading for anyone who wants to successfully carve out their own career niche.

It is about taking chances, gaining confidence and making changes in your career and life.

Richard Bolles (Ten Speed Press)

Book on Resilience

'Resilience: Bounce Back from Whatever Life Throws at You'
by Jane Clarke and John Nicholson
(Nicholson McBride)

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Every manager and executive will recognise themselves somewhere in this book. Lencioni distills the problems that keep even the most talented teams from realising their full potential. Even more important, he shows how to solve them.

Patrick Lencioni (Jossey-Bass)

ExpressExec

ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books.

These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companies and ideas from the words smartest thinkers.

Organised into ten core subject areas making it easy to find the information you need:

1. Innovation
2. Enterprise
3. Strategy
4. Marketing
5. Finance
6. Operations and Technology
7. Organisations
8. Leading
9. People
10. Life and Work

It is the perfect learning solution for people who need to master the latest business thinking and practice quickly or have gaps they need to fill.

When Smart People Work for Dumb Bosses

Suffering under an intimidating supervisor? Mistreated by thoughtless management? Demeaned by a dictator? Bullied by a lazy boss? Used and abused by heartless company policy? You're not alone. The fact is that such nightmare situations are a way of life for many working people. But help is on the way. William and Kathleen Lundin, "therapists" for dysfunctional organisations, have helped hundreds of employees break the cycle.

This book offers hope for dealing with those "bosses from hell".

Lundin (McGraw-Hill)