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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving InGetting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.29
We all negotiate. This book describes a 4-step process that is efficient and fair. Extremely useful.
Decision Traps: The Ten Barriers to Decision-Making and How to Overcome ThemDecision Traps: The Ten Barriers to Decision-Making and How to Overcome Them by Edward Russo
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We generally are self-taught decision-makers. This book describes the most common errors in the four-step process of making a decision.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective PeopleThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
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Poorly written but very useful ideas can be extracted. Pulling long-term and important goals into weekly plans is a great insight: a day's not enough, a month's too much.
Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively ForwardChanging for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward by James O. Prochaska
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $4.50
Research revealed how people successfully make changes: a 6-stage process, each stage having its own tasks and appropriate techniques. Works for all sorts of changes.
Managing Management TimeManaging Management Time by William Oncken
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An extremely practical guide for the new or would-be manager -- and even the experienced manager.
Other Diabetes, The: Living And Eating Well With Type 2 DiabetesOther Diabetes, The: Living And Eating Well With Type 2 Diabetes by Elizabeth N. Hiser
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A superb book on how to avoid -- as well as manage -- an increasing common disease, one that's well worth avoiding. And once you get it, you have it: no returns.
The Optimistic Child: Proven Program to Safeguard Children from Depression & Build Lifelong ResilienceThe Optimistic Child: Proven Program to Safeguard Children from Depression & Build Lifelong Resilience by Martin E. Seligman
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Parents are often self-taught. My daughter said that, of all the books she read on parenting, this was far and away the best.
The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use ItThe 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It by David Niven
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Brief summaries of research findings of behaviors, attitudes, & habits that distinguish the happy from the not.
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your LifeLearned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin Seligman
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A way to reduce the risk of unipolar depression -- and a very interesting book in any case.
A Simpler WayA Simpler Way by Margaret J Wheatley
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A way to view life and work to produce better results and more confidence.