 | Who: The A Method for Hiring by Geoff Smart
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $10.00 One of the latest books on the market. I recommend this book if you wish to enhance your hiring. Be advised that one should approach the entire "system" with practical caution.
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 | Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $12.47 An important new book on leadership. Highly recommended.
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 | Wingtips with Spurs by Michael L. Gooch
Buy new: $22.45 / Used from: $18.33 This is your book if you are seeking guidance in different areas. With 40 topics covering a wide range from age discrimination to the value of human resources, it has been a proven, valuable resource for those in the management field. This is not a one-trick pony but a serious guide for serious managers. Also a fun read.
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 | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
Buy new: $17.54 / Used from: $9.00 The greatest management book ever written.
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 | First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $5.03 Thinking outside the box and going against the grain.
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 | Coping with Difficult People: The Proven-Effective Battle Plan That Has Helped Millions Deal with the Troublemakers in Their Lives at Home and at Work by Robert M. Bramson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 You have met every person listed in this book. If not, you will!
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 | How to Argue & Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, In Court, Everywhere, Everyday by Gerry Spence
Buy new: $11.48 / Used from: $3.03 absolutely the best book I have ever read on getting someone to do what you need.
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 | Proving the Value of HR: How and Why to Measure ROI (Practical HR Series) by Jack J. Phillips PhD
Buy new: $44.95 / Used from: $31.99 Excellent starting place if you are needing to prove your worth.
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 | HR Metrics The World Class Way by John Sullivan
Buy new: $104.30 / Used from: $84.99 A companion to the above book. Together, you should have a firm foundation on which to start showing your value to the organization.
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 | The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary by Mark Sanborn
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.00 Quick read with a good story.
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 | High Five! The Magic of Working Together by Ken Blanchard
Buy new: $14.40 / Used from: $0.01 A book I have used in the past as the foundation for managerial training.
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 | The One Minute Manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard
Buy new: $15.63 / Used from: $2.48 I obtained my first copy 27 years ago. A couple of years ago, I used the book for a management class. Still relevant and powerful.
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 | Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions by John Kotter
Buy new: $11.69 / Used from: $4.79 If you are having trouble with change management, this is your book. Really fun
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 | Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.40 If HR management is not about survival, what is? Excellent lessons that can be applied to the business world.
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 | Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $4.38 A well written inside look at how "normal" people perceive those in management. Good lessons to be learned.
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 | Out of the Crisis by W. Edwards Deming
Buy new: $22.24 / Used from: $14.69 The original and still the best.
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 | Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson
Buy new: $13.38 / Used from: $0.01 Another change book that I highly recommend.
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 | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $6.43 This is worth reading two or three times.
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 | The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $7.49 / Used from: $5.52 Same here. It might possibly change the way you manage.
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 | Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits (J-B Warren Bennis Series) by Robert C. Townsend
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $9.68 Years ago I bought this book and still refer to it three or four times a year. Fantastic look at a CEO's mind. Too bad he is dead. I would like to work for him.
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 | The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Buy new: $18.48 / Used from: $12.50 When you hear hoofbeats, sometimes it is zebras.
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![Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Cz7mSihbL._SL75_.jpg) | Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
Buy new: $18.71 / Used from: $4.64 If you think you know why things are the way they are or you expect A to coorelate to B, then you need to read this great book. It is wonderful.
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 | Jesus, CEO: Using Ancient Wisdom for Visionary Leadership by Laurie Beth Jones
Buy new: $13.95 / Used from: $0.01 I wish this little book had had more influence than it did. The lessons are to be cherished.
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 | The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America by Philip K. Howard
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 As Glen Beck says, blood will shoot out of your eyes! This is several years old but the value is just as strong.
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 | Winners Never Cheat: Everyday Values We Learned as Children (But May Have Forgotten) by Jon M. Huntsman
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $11.94 It may make you feel bad about some of things you've done to get ahead (go ahead and admit it)
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 | Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive by Noah J. Goldstein
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $7.48 Great reference for constructing your plan of attack.
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 | HR Answer Book, The: An Indispensable Guide for Managers and Human Resources Professionals by Shawn Smith JD
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $9.98 Keep this one on a nearby shelf. You will be using it frequently.
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 | The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (J-B Lencioni Series) by Patrick Lencioni
Buy new: $14.58 / Used from: $6.45 If great teamwork is part of your goals, this is a great place to start.
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 | The Conscious Universe: Parts and Wholes in Physical Reality by Menas Kafatos
Buy new: $59.95 / Used from: $22.50 Why do all of those stupid, trashy people hate me. Between the lines, you will find out.
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 | How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.95 Classic that is just as true today.
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 | How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
Buy new: $10.55 / Used from: $5.30 Another classic that should be read by any manager - HR or not.
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 | The Leading Arbitrators' Guide to International Arbitration Second Edition by Lawrence W. Newman
Buy new: $175.00 A great quide when searching phrases and cases upon which to build your best case.
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 | Labor Relations (12th Edition) by Arthur A Sloane
Buy new: $130.69 / Used from: $5.86 Bad price. Good book. Only for those that are inexperianced in labor. There seems to be more and more HR managers that do not have a labor background.
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 | The Meaning of Quantum Theory: A Guide for Students of Chemistry and Physics (Oxford Science Publications) by Jim Baggott
Buy new: $85.00 / Used from: $0.78 Lots of math but strengthens my argument that we are all connected and your actions have reactions.
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 | Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $12.75 This is a great book to find strength and courage but also a world class example on how to construct an argument.
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 | The Swiss Family Robinson (Penguin Classics) by Johann D. Wyss
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $4.69 A world class HR manager must be resourceful. The lessons from the father in this book should be a good guide to all of us. No matter the situation, we can make it better. Use what you have - not what you wish you had.
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 | High Altitude Leadership: What the World's Most Forbidding Peaks Teach Us About Success (J-B US non-Franchise Leadership) by Chris Warner
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $12.55 One of the best on Leadership. You have to read this one.
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 | Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney by Lee Cockerell
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $14.96 Overall really good book with stories and the lessons they teach. Nothing new or novel but a great reminder tome.
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