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Book Review: Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn

August 27th, 2009 · No Comments

Punished by Rewards is by far the best book on motivation that I have ever read. Never mind that it could be one third the length and still make the same point.  It is still an extremely valuable book because it not only challenges current state of events, but does a great job of it.
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Tags: 1. Entrepreneurial Management · 2. Engaged Manpower · Education · Great Books · Will

Book Review: A hat full of sky by Terry Pratchett

August 26th, 2009 · No Comments

While it took me about 20 pages to really get in to “A Hat Full of Sky,” I found myself really enjoying it and being pleasantly surprised with not being able to put it down until I was done reading. This book is a pretty good work of fiction, but it also has a number [...]

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Tags: 1. Entrepreneurial Management · 2. Engaged Manpower · 7. Exposure Mitigation · 8. Eternal Mission · Ability · Education · Great Books · Will

Book Review: The Quality Toolbox by N. Tague

August 6th, 2009 · No Comments

It is interesting how quality folks have managed to claim all and every tool from every related discipline as their own. This book is no exception. It is a compilation of many many tools of management, decision making, engineering, design, data analysis and, yes, occasionally even quality. The book attempts to be comprehansive, though it only devotes [...]

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Book review: Alchemist

August 4th, 2009 · No Comments

Yesterday I listened to an audio book of Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and must admit I really enjoyed it. Not that this book agrees with my personal values, but aside from excellent storytelling, it has made me rethink and reconsider many of the most important life’s questions.
I loved the fact that it emphasised the connection with [...]

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Book Review: Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie

June 25th, 2009 · No Comments

This book published almost 200 years ago is the first one to create the argument that the short term focus on the profits has to be balanced with the long term focus on the people. Carnegie, who is allegedly a robber Barron, but in my view simply one of the more brilliant capitalists of his day, builds the [...]

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Tags: 1. Entrepreneurial Management · 2. Engaged Manpower · 8. Eternal Mission · Great Books