June 20th, 2010 § § permalink
Leading Across Boundaries offers a stimulating and highly accessible guide for leaders of nonprofit and governmental organizations who want to develop successful and lasting partnerships. Written by Russell Linden, an expert in the field of organizational change, this important resource shows how to make collaboration work in real-world situations. Linden explores the interpersonal and organizational forces that can inhibit collaboration and offers strategies for overcoming these often daunting challenges.
Business Intelligence by Rajiv Sabherwal and Irma Becerra-Fernandez
Business professionals who want to advance their careers need to have a strong understanding of how to utilize business intelligence. Business Intelligence provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic business and technical concepts they’ll need to know. It integrates case studies that demonstrate how to apply the material. Business professionals will also find suggested further readings that will develop their knowledge and help them succeed.
Covering cloud computing from what the business leader needs to know, this book describes how IT can nimbly ramp up revenue initiatives, positively impact business operations and costs, and how this allows business leaders to shed worry about technology so they can focus on their business. It also reveals the cloud’s effect on corporate organization structures, the evolution of traditional IT in the global economy, potential benefits and risks of cloud models and most importantly, how the IT function is being rethought by companies today who are making room for the coming tidal wave that is cloud computing.
SHIFT by Gary Keller
Markets shift, and you can too. Sometimes you’ll shift in response to a falling market, and other times you’ll shift to take your business to the next level. Both can transform your business and your life. You can change your thinking, your focus, your actions, and, ultimately, your results to get back in the game and ahead of the competition. The tactics that jump-start your business in tough times will power it forward in good times. No matter the market-shift SHIFT!
The Why of Work by David Ulrich and Wendy Ulrich
The Why of Work provides the frameworks and tools for leveraging every individual’s need for meaning in order to build a winning company culture and seize the competitive advantage. It helps leaders establish a vision that resonates not only within the minds but also within the hearts of those they lead.
Cultures and Organizations by Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede and Michael Minkov
Since its original publication in 1991, Cultures and Organizations has been helping business leaders understand how people think as members of a group—which dramatically increases managers’ effectiveness leading and developing cross-cultural workforces. This groundbreaking work reveals the unexamined rules behind the thoughts and emotions of people of different cultures, ways in which cultures differ in the areas of collectivism/individualism, assertiveness/modesty, tolerance for ambiguity, and deferment of gratification as well as how organizational cultures differ from national cultures, and how they can be managed.
June 18th, 2010 § § permalink
Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948 in Peoria, Illinois) is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle.
Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
He spans genres such as science fiction, horror and fantasy, sometimes within the same novel: a typical example of Simmons’ ability to intermingle genres is Song of Kali (1985), winner of World Fantasy Award. He is also a respected author of mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz.
Other Books by Dan Simmons
Other Books by Dan Simmons
June 18th, 2010 § § permalink
Novels
At a loose end after college, Ellis Barstow drifts back to his home town and a strange profession: reconstructing fatal traffic accidents. He seems to take to the work immediately , and forms a bond with his boss and mentor, John Boggs, an intriguing character of few but telling words.
First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear—of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.
Bennie Salazar, an aging punk rocker and record executive, and the beautiful Sasha, the troubled young woman he employs, never discover each other’s pasts, but the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other people whose paths intersect with theirs in the course of nearly fifty years. A Visit from the Goon Squad is about time, about survival, about our private terrors, and what happens when we fail to rebound.
Twenty-five years on from Less Than Zero, we pick up again with Clay. Less Than Zero chronicles the frightening consequences of unmitigated hedonism within the ranks of the ethically bereft youth of 80s Los Angeles. Now, twenty-five years later, Ellis returns to those same characters: to Clay and the band of infamous teenagers whose lives weave sporadically through his. But now, some years on, they face an even greater period of disaffection: their own middle age.
On the eve of the Revolutionary War, a young woman is caught between tradition and independence, family and conscience, loyalty and love, in this spellbinding novel from the author of The Widow’s War and Bound.
Rose Mae Lolley is a fierce and dirty girl, long-suppressed under flowery skirts and bow-trimmed ballet flats. As “Mrs. Ro Grandee” she’s trapped in a marriage that’s thick with love and sick with abuse.
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Life of Pi comes another ingenious, provocative, and mesmerizing new novel that explores big questions about humanity-about who we are and what we are capable of doing in order to survive.
On a stormy winter night, two strangers wait for a flight at the Salt Lake City airport. Ashley Knox is an attractive, successful writer, who is flying East for her much anticipated wedding. Dr. Ben Payne has just wrapped up a medical conference and is also eager to get back East for a slate of surgeries he has scheduled for the following day.
From the author of I Was Amelia Earhart comes this luminous love story that winds through several generations—told in Jane Mendelsohn’s distinctive, mesmerizing style.
Imagine an empire that has shut out the world for a century and a half. No one can leave, foreigners are excluded, their religions banned and their ideas deeply mistrusted. Yet a narrow window onto this nation-fortress still exists: an artificial walled island connected to a mainland port, and manned by a handful of European traders. And locked as the land-gate may be, it cannot prevent the meeting of minds – or hearts.
Zoe Nielsen was just like any other ten year old walking to school, not knowing that a chance encounter with Thurman Hayes would lead to her abduction and imprisonment in a converted nuclear bunker beneath a remote Arizona ranch house, 4,000 miles away from her home on an island off the coast of Newfoundland.
The author of the greatest American immigrant novel, Call It Sleep, returns with this posthumous work.
First Novels
In this delightful debut novel, a daughter of a quaint New England college town returns to confront her father’s legacy and the surprising pieces of life he has left behind.
On a clear day in winter, the battered corpse of Crispin Salvador is pulled from the Hudson River – taken from the world is the controversial lion of Philippine literature.
Novellas/Stories
A knockout new novella that perfectly captures a time and a place–New York in the ’80s–from iconic American writer Ann Beattie.
The Spot is an old blacksmith shed in which a gang of men tweeze apart the intricacies of a botched bank robbery.
Nonfiction
This is the story of one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful young literary agents in New York and his catastrophic fall into full-blown crack addiction: a collapse that would cost him his business, his home, many of his friends and – very nearly – his life.
Scruton argues that the tragedies and disasters of the history of the European continent have been the consequences of a false optimism and the fallacies that derive from it.
June 16th, 2010 § § permalink
June 16th, 2010 § § permalink
How to Be a Fierce Competitor by Jeffrey J. Fox
From best-selling author Jeffrey J. Fox, how the savvy see opportunity — and capitalize on it
Economic downturns separate the winning companies from the struggling. And as best-selling author Jeffrey J. Fox shows, tough times also give solid companies, strong managers, and potential rainmakers the opportunity to seize market share. In this eminently readable, practical resource for business leaders and managers, Fox explains exactly how the savvy few who rise to the top stay focused and alert, get new market share, hire good recently fired talent, increase investments into customer service, speed innovation, train all customer facing people, make acquisitions, get rid of underperformers, build brand names, pay for measurable performance, and lots more.
Potential rainmakers, CEOS, marketing superstars, and great bosses have long turned to Jeffrey J. Fox for advice. Now he shows exactly what to do to weather any climate.
June 14th, 2010 § § permalink
Bounce: How Champions are Made by Matthew Syed
Everyone knows that David Beckham crosses the ball better than anyone else and that Tiger Woods never “chokes”. But what are the hidden factors which allow the most successful sports stars to rise above their competitors – and are they shared by virtuosos in other fields?
In Bounce Matthew Syed – an award-winning Times columnist and three-time Commonwealth table-tennis champion – reveals what really lies behind world-beating achievement in sport, and other walks of life besides. The answers – taking in the latest in neuroscience, psychology and economics – will change the way we look at sports stars and revolutionise our ideas about what it takes to become the best. From the upbringing of Mozart to the mindset of Mohammed Ali – via the recruitment policies of Enron – Bounce weaves together fascinating stories and telling insights and statistics into a wonderfully thought-provoking read. Bounce looks at big questions – such as the real nature of talent, what kind of practice actually works, how to achieve motivation, drugs in both sport and life, and whether black people really are faster runners. Along the way Matthew talks to a Hungarian father whose educational theories saw his daughters become three of the best chess players of all time, meets a female East German athlete who became a man, and explains why one small street in Reading – his own – has produced more top table-tennis players than the rest of Britain put together. Fresh, ground-breaking and tackling subjects with broad appeal, Bounce is sure to be one of the most talked about books of the year.
Matthew Syed was recently on BBC Radio 4 Today programme with Jonathan Edwards taking about Bounce. You can listen again on:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8679000/8679423.stm
June 12th, 2010 § § permalink
With The Making of a Market Guru, you’ll gain an insightful look at Fisher’s prolific career over the years and discover the high-profile market calls he’s made so far in these monthly columns. At times engaging and timely, at others revealing and informative, this book is a sweeping look at a recent and eventful slice of stock market history. You’ll read about what’s changed, but you’ll be more amazed by what hasn’t. And you’ll see investing wisdom that still applies, now and for the foreseeable future, from a quarter-century of Fisher’s concise and witty market wisdom.
In The Stress Effect, leadership expert Henry L. Thompson reveals that stress is often the culprit behind leadership failure. When leaders’ stress levels become sufficiently elevated, their ability to call on both emotional and cognitive intelli-gences to make wise decisions is dramatically impaired. Experts have argued that increasing your emotional intelligence will help you cope with and manage stress. But Thompson clearly shows that stress actually blocks access to your emotional intelligence as well as your cognitive intelligence, two critical components in the decision-making process.
The recent economic crisis was not just caused by a failure of regulation or economic policy; it was a story of the failure of management in a fundamental sense—a deeply flawed approach to management that encouraged bankers to pursue opportunities without regard for their long-term consequences, and to put their own interests ahead of those of their employers and their shareholders.
Are you among the thousands of small businesses frustrated by market challenges, willing to change, but unsure of the right path for your business? Are you looking for the advice of an expert consultant, but unable to spend the money? Then The Retail Doctor’s Guide to Growing Your Business is for you.
God Goes to Work unlocks your “spiritual assets” so that you can achieve both business and personal success. Written by veteran entrepreneur, executive, and speaker Tom Zender, this groundbreaking book gives you practical steps you can implement immediately, starting you on a path towards more profitable interactions at all levels.
In Co-Opportunity, green business guru Grant shows how we, when we join forces through co-operative initiatives, can really make changes and work towards a better future. John uses cases and examples from around the world, from social networks to social ventures, Carrot Mobbing to the Carbon Disclosure Project, to show how a move to greater co-operation via what he calls Co-operative Networks can be a way forwards for all of us to increase the common well-being.
June 10th, 2010 § § permalink
Whether you’re a small-business owner, department manager, or individual investor or business student, How to Read a Balance Sheet provides the skills you need to make the wisest financial decisions possible. A critical but rarely used business tool for non-financial professionals, the balance sheet provides a snapshot of a company’s financial position at any single point in time.
Competitive Selling has what you need to out-maneuver, out-negotiate, and out-sell everyone who stands between you and a closed sale. It reveals exactly how today’s highest achievers win every battle and provides a blueprint for replicating this success.
Companies that successfully harness employees’ creativity and convert it to business innovation are leading the charge today. While this isn’t a brand-new concept, no one has explained how connections between people initially remote from each other generate innovation—until now. Riding the Waves of Innovation fills the void.
The Hyper-Social Organization includes self-analysis tools, bold new insights from interviews with industry leading corporations, and other powerful features combine in this definitive, maximum-impact guide to using social media as the ultimate competitive advantage.
Success Secrets of Social Media Marketing Superstars by Mitch Meyerson
In Success Secrets of Social Media Marketing Superstars, online marketing guru Mitch Meyerson presents entrepreneurs with an unmatched advantage into the world of social media as well as the secrets, strategies, tactics, and insights of more than 20 of today’s top social media experts. Handpicked to cover almost every aspect of social media marketing, experts, including Marie Smith, Fast Company’s “Pied Piper of Facebook,” and Joel Comm, author of Twitter Power, teach entrepreneurs how to create effective social media campaigns to exponentially expand their reach and grow their business.
June 8th, 2010 § § permalink
Detik Tengah Malam Mr Midnight #21
CERITA #1: JAUHI RUMAH JIRAN, amaran ayah Nitro Chan. Namun Nitro tidak mengendahkannya! Tidak lama selepas itu, perasaan ingin tahunya telah memerangkap dia dan kawannya di dalam suasana yang amat menakutkan.
CERITA #2: Kehidupan Viola Ho tidak lagi seperti biasa. Pelbagai perkara pelik telah berlaku. Tiba-tiba dia menjerit: PENCEROBOH KEHIDUPAN. Bolehkah dia melepaskan diri dari kuasa ghaib yang ingin menguasainya – atau adakah dia akan menghadapi kecelakaan?
“Terjemahan buku ini berdasarkan tatabahasa dan ejaan Bahasa Malaysia terkini.” Shajaratuddur Halim
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June 7th, 2010 § § permalink
Football is in season.. kicking off with a match between South Aftica vs Mexico.
I’m not a huge football fan, but growing up with two brothers, it was inevitable to not know nor acknowledge the existence of football, its rules, regulations, the countries, the colourful jerseys, the players, etc..
The question for this month, however points instead towards two sporting brands, and until I read the synopsis, did I realize that the two feuding owners of those world-renowned sneakers-makers, were actually brothers. If you look at the cover image of the book on the left, you’ll see that the brands I am refering to, are Adidas and Puma.
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Question: What are the brothers’ names?
I have 2 copies of Sneaker Wars (ISBN 9780061246579, valued at RM 101.90) to give away.
Winners will be determined, as usual, through our own mini lucky draw.
You may only enter this contest once. Multiple entries will be disqualified. Do type your answers at the comment column below. Only those who live in West Malaysia only are eligible to participate and win the prizes.
p.s. ** please press ’submit comment’ once only
Contest ends on 13th June 2010, 11.59 pm.
Viva la football !! See you soon !!
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