Archives for February 2010
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The Lightning Thief
In the book The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, 12-year-old Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school . . . again. No matter how hard he tries, he can’t seem to stay out of trouble. But can he really be expected to stand by and watch while a bully picks on [...]
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MPH Monthly Best-Sellers List for Feb 2010
Non-Fiction
1. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
2. Learn Faster & Remember More by David Gamon & Allen D. Bragdon
3. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow
4. How to Simplify Your Life: Seven Practical Steps to Letting Go of Your Burdens and Living a Happier Life by Tiki Kustenmacher & Lothar J. Seiwert
5. Men Are [...]
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Errornomics: Why We Make Mistakes and What We Can Do to Avoid Them
How did security staff at LA International Airport miss 75 per cent of bomb-making materials that went through screening? Which way should you turn before joining a supermarket queue? Why should a woman hope it was a man who witnessed her bag being snatched? And what possessed Burt Reynolds to punch a guy with no [...]
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More Income = More Wealth? Bigger Car/House = More Wealth? Read On…
How many of you think the more income you have always equals the wealthier you are? How many of you think the bigger car or house you have always means the wealthier you are?
Well, if your answer to the above questions are YES, you are very WRONG!
I once attended a financial seminar by a financial [...]
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Contest # 7
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Contests and Promotions
Another long weekend is starting at the end of this work-day. Great!
And what’s greater is that we are giving out 4 copies of a ”Simple Steps to Leadership Excellence” by Heera Singh (ISBN 9789834490409).
Task
1. Name someone (preferably a public figure) that you admire for his / her leadership excellence.
2. Give us a reason why you chose [...]
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How to be successful?
OUTLIERS: THE STORY OF SUCCESS
“Gladwell, author and journalist, sets out to provide an understanding of success using outliers, men and women with skills, talent, and drive who do things out of the ordinary. He contends that we must look beyond the merits of a successful individual to understand his culture, where he comes from, his [...]
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Talent Management Essentials Series
The Talent Management Essentials Series provides a comprehensive and contemporary treatment of approaches, tools, and techniques associated with the practice and application of I/O psychology to work. An excellent modern complement to other more content-based or research-oriented books, this practitioner-oriented series presents “best practices” in the application of Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Mistreatment in the Workplace
Mistreatment [...]
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MPH Best-Sellers List for Week Ending Feb 21, 2010
Non-Fiction
1. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
2. Learn Faster & Remember More by Allen D. Bragdon & David Gamon
3. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow
4. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny by Robin Sharma
5. Mayada: Daughter of Iraq by Jean Sasson
6. Law of [...]
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P.S. I Love You
P.S. I Love You is a novel about holding on, letting go, and learning to love again.
Now in paperback, the endearing novel that captured readers’ hearts and introduced a fresh new voice in women’s fiction — Cecelia Ahern.
Holly couldn’t live without her husband Gerry, until the day she had to. They were the kind of [...]
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Jacques Rancière
Jacques Rancière (born Algiers, 1940) is a French philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris (St. Denis) who came to prominence when he co-authored Reading Capital (1968), with the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser.
Rancière contributed to the influential volume Reading “Capital” (though his contribution is not contained in the partial English translation) [...]
