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Follow the Yellow Brick Road: A Harvard Psychologist's Guide to Becoming a Superstar

Dr Myra White
How do ordinary people like Richard Branson, Jack Welch or Warren Buffett become superstars? What do they do that catapults them to the top while others struggle valiantly but achieve only moderate success?

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What To Do When You Become The Boss

Despite the obvious impact an ineffective manager has on an organisation's profitability, many still pay little attention to supporting new managers, particularly in their first supervisory role. This book could be the answer.

How to Manage in a Flat World

Increasingly, people are asked to be members of a virtual team – or multiple teams. But as this book asks, how well suited are human beings to working in teams that stretch across a dozen time zones?

Managing Virtual Teams: Getting the Most from Wikis, Blogs, and Other Collaborative Tools

How do you manage people you don't see every day, may never actually have met in person and who may be working not just in different cities, but on different continents?

Career Helium

Career Helium is a modern-day fable thats helps the reader to understand the implicit rules that determine what it takes to succeed in the world of business. Dr Rob Yeung, Director of leadership consulting firm Talentspace, has been reading it.

Why Your Boss is Programmed to be a Dictator

Why do bosses behave the way they do? As this book explains, even the nicest, friendliest people can become dictator-like in organizational systems that encourage bad bosses. But by understanding this, both employees and bosses can take the first steps to creating better relationships.

Lead Well and Prosper

Managers don't become poor on purpose. They don't aspire to mediocrity. They just don't work on the right things. This useful real-world guide to becoming a more effective and successful manager lays out what those 'right things' are.

The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace

It takes more than traditional intelligence for individuals or organizations to be successful. But how can emotional intelligence be taken beyond the individual to become something a group or entire organization can build and utilize collectively?

The Top Performers Guide to Change

The Top Performers Guide to Change helps you develop a level of self-awareness critical to understanding your own natural response and how to modify it to be more effective.

Beyond Authority: Leadership in a Changing World

This book explains how to operate when you go beyond your immediate circle of influence, filled with examples of people who have extended their reach to the benefit of society as well as themselves.

The Go Point

This book sets out to help you master the art and science of being decisive. The Go Point is the moment of truth when it's time to get off the fence and you have to say 'yes' or 'no' – the point at which you have to be decisive.

Corporate Reputations, Branding and People Management

This book is aimed at helping HR practitioners understand the corporate agenda and the role of reputation management, brands, social responsibility and governance in creating competitive advantage and organizational legitimacy.

The Tao of Loyalty

In today's business environment, people, rather than products, technology and processes, are increasingly becoming the crucial factor in differentiating profitable organizations from those that are not.

Mine's Bigger Than Yours

In an age where the best is often found in the smallest size, large egos are rampant, and even encouraged, in the business world. But if left unchecked, big egos can wreak both personal and organisational havoc.

The Long Tail

In the new, web-powered world of infinite niche markets, everything has become available to everyone and the combined value of the millions of items that only sell in small quantities equals or even exceeds the value of a handful of best-sellers.

Your Idea Can Make You Rich

Many of us dream of running our own business, but lack of experience and entrepreneurial skills often prevent people from making that first step.

What Happy Companies Know

What kinds of companies are best prepared to succeed - and to sustain their success? This book argues that happier, psychologically healthy organisations perform better. But what is a happy company?
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