A Diary of Private Prayer by John Baillie

A Diary of Private Prayer by John Baillie (Paperback - Jul 16, 1996)

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Fireside; 1st Fireside Ed edition (July 16, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684824981
• ISBN-13: 978-0684824987

Product Description

In this book of personal devotions, Dr. Baillie inspires a deep searching of one's inner life through prayer by writing each prayer so that it seems to have been written specifically for the reader. In his understanding of the aspects of God's relation to man and man's relation to God through prayer, Dr. Baillie intermingles adoration, meditation, and intercession with a strong sense of the importance of social needs, as well as the needs of the individual.

The HP Way: How Bill and I Built Our Company by David Packard

The HP Way: How Bill and I Built Our Company by David Packard

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Collins; 1st edition (May 24, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0887307477
• ISBN-13: 978-0887307478

Amazon.com Review

In a dry fashion, Packard tells the true story of the mighty Hewlett-Packard Company: Two college buddies begin a partnership by producing an audio oscillator in a Palo Alto garage in 1938 and wind up 60 years later with a $25-billion-dollar electronics company on their hands. He wraps the book up tidily with a timeline of the company's development milestones. Packard chalks up success to many things, including government contracts during wartime, but mostly to the company's management outlook ("The HP Way"), which champions openness, honesty, and flexibility throughout the organization. Entrepreneurs and technologists alike will be interested in this journey of an American giant. Packard's tone sometimes veers toward the self-congratulatory, but in this case, it somehow seems justified. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

From Library Journal

Hewlett-Packard is a high-tech company with over $25 billion in sales; the Hewlett-Packard way has obviously been quite successful. Here, one of the company's founders tells the story of its growth. Packard frequently becomes nostalgic, such as when talking about his first vacuum tube. He explains why Hewlett-Packard follows strong management practices: management by objectives, educational subsidies for employees, profit sharing, and giving authority to employees closest to the customers. Packard also served as a Defense Department official and in doing so chose to give $20 million to charity to avoid ethical conflicts. The company history Packard relates is, however, an uncritical review. The cassettes, narrated by Martin Bookspan, are of limited use because they offer little discussion of ideas that a person in business might adopt. Not an important purchase.?Mark Guyer, Stark Cty. Dist. Lib., Canton, Ohio
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

From Booklist

More than 50 years ago, when California's Santa Clara Valley was known by the mountains that formed it rather than by the silicon-based technology utilized by the many companies that proliferated there, electronics giant Hewlitt-Packard was born in a Palo Alto garage. As the company expanded, founders David Packard and Bill Hewlitt maintained their management style, which was influenced in part by a laid-back California culture and came to be known as the "HP way." Elements of their "way" are included in much of today's popular management philosophies: listening to customers, trusting employees, decentralizing, being sensitive to social responsibility, etc. Here Packard offers reminiscences of how, as his subtitle indicates, Bill and he built their company. Much more personal than standard corporate histories, Packard's book provides insights into managing and motivating people and inspiration for would-be entrepreneurs. David Rouse --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review

"An unswerving chronology of the life and most good times of Hewlett-Packard, from its notional beginnings . . . to its luminous present." -- New York Times Book Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description

Much more personal than standard corporate histories, David Packard's The HP Way provides insights into managing and motivating people and inspiration for would–be entrepreneurs. This bestselling classic joins the Collins Business Essentials line–up with a new Note from Steve Jobs.
From a one–car–garage company to a multibillion–dollar industry, the rise of Hewlett–Packard is an extraordinary tale of vision, innovation and hard work. Conceived in 1939, Hewlett–Packard earned success not only as a result of its engineering know–how and cutting–edge product ideas, but also because of the unique management style it developed – a way of doing things called 'the HP way'.
Decades before today's creative management trends, Hewlett–Packard invented such strategies as 'walk–around management', 'flextime', and 'quality cycles'. Always sensitive to the needs of its customers and responsive to employee input, Hewlett–Packard earned massive steady growth that far outshone its competitors' vacillating fortunes, even with radically different products from those responsible for its initial boom.
For entrepreneurs and managers alike, the wisdom found in these pages is invaluable if they want their businesses to gain steady growth and consistent success.

About the Author

With Bill Hewlett, David Packard was cofounder of the Hewlett-Packard Company. In September 1993, he retired as chairman of the board and was named chairman emeritus. He served in that position until his death on March 26, 1996.

Firnando Chau Review

Accounting in the Business Environment by John Watts

Management Redeemed by Frederick G Hilmer & Lex Donaldson

About the Book:-
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Free Press (October 10, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0684831627
ISBN-13: 978-0684831626


Firnando Chau Review


About the Book


Today's conventional wisdom on management is that less is better. Academics, consultants, and even executives claim organizations will run better if they are less hindered by bureaucracy, hierarchy, reports, meetings, and other relics of traditional management.


In a refreshing departure from these claims, Frederick G. Hilmer and Lex Donaldson challenge five of the most widely held beliefs about management. Drawing on examples from GE, Microsoft, Nike, Ford, Gillette, and other corporations, as well as on years of research from top business scholars, Management Redeemed argues that multiple layers of management and formal hierarchical structure actually help to make organizations more productive. Supporting another equally contrarian position, the authors demonstrate that reflection, analysis, and intellectual activity are as important to managerial success as quick action and intuition. They also warn against the dangers of corporate culture and quick-fix solutions such as TQM, reengineering, value-based planning, benchmarking, niche marketing, and gainsharing. And finally, in one of their most surprising revelations, Rilmer and Donaldson rebut the notion that independent boards are necessary to ensure that management works in the best interest of the shareholders. In fact, their evidence illustrates that boards with a majority of outside directors generally underinvest in R&D, retarding corporate success.


In contrast to all who decry managers and management, Hilmer and Donaldson have a strikingly positive view of managers. And, unlike those who predict the imminent extinction of managers, these authors foresee a larger role for them in the corporations of the future. Rather than doing away with classical management, Hilmer and Donaldson urge that it be upgraded to a profession on par with medicine, engineering, law, or architecture. To meet that standard, the authors say, corporations, business schools, and professional associations must work together to establish a firm set of ideals and ethics, a sound body of required knowledge, and a clear, jargon-free vocabulary.

Eat Right 4 Your Type by Dr Peter J. D'Adamo with Catherine Whitney

Eat Right For Your Type: The Individualised diet solution to staying healthy, living longer and achieving your ideal weight by by Dr Peter J. D'Adamo with Catherine Whitney

Firnando Chau Review

The teaching of Buddha Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai (Japan)

Everyone's a Coach: Five Business Secrets for High Performance Coaching by Don Shula

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Zondervan; First Edition edition (June 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0310501202
• ISBN-13: 978-0310501206

From Scientific American

Audible Ready: On the football field, when the game plan just isn't working, that coach and team ready to execute substitute plays inevitably have the edge. Just as Dan Marino's on-field "audibles" (verbal commands) can turn crises situations into game-winning touchdowns, the office quarterback prepared with a variety of options can execute quick, on-target decisions in the face of unexpected change or challenges.Consistency: The same reactions in similar circumstances may not seem a lot to ask of a leader - but many bosses let their moods, their "toughness," or their need to be liked get in the way when it comes to offering appropriate praise or reprimands. For Shula and Blanchard, the rule is simple: "You can't let poor performance go unnoticed - even from a superstar. The same goes for good performance - performance is all-important; that's what you need to respond to on a consistent basis."
Honesty-based: Effective leaders, Shula and Blanchard maintain, are always straightforward in their dealings with other people. Shula sets out to win fair and square and makes sure his team does the same: It's no coincidence that during Shula's seasons with Miami the Dolphins have been the least penalized team in the NFL. Though penalties in the corporate sector are less immediate than those in a stadium, studies show that the decline of ethics and integrity in a business inevitably lead to the decline of that business. Business leaders who tell it straight, who are open and honest even about bad news, develop the trust essential for strong long-term relationships - inside and outside of the company.
Featuring vignettes drawn from Shula's training sessions and actual Dolphin games, and from the corporate offices where Blanchard has encountered the best - and the worst - of management coaches, Everyone's a Coach sends leaders well on their way to creating a championship team. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

From Booklist

Examples from the game of football are often used to illustrate determination, overcoming adversity and long odds, competition, and success; and our everyday language is filled with gridiron metaphors and memorable quotes. It is only natural, then, that Shula, the coach with more wins in professional football than any other, should write about inspiring others to win. He provided similar guidance with The Winning Edge (1973), his account of his success in turning around the ineffectual Miami Dolphins. He now teams up with Blanchard, author of the best-selling One Minute Manager (1982) and its popular sequels. Alternately, the two dispense their advice using key points based on the somewhat forced mnemonic COACH (conviction-driven, overlearning, audible ready, consistency, and honesty). Shula, a deeply religious person, includes frequent references to his faith and God. Blanchard, meanwhile, sings the praises of Shula and offers up business applications of Shula's playing-field tactics. David Rouse

Review

Winning strategies for scoring big - in any game.From the playing fields of the National Football League to the corridors of corporate America, smart leaders share the same objectives - putting together a cohesive, hardworking team and tallying up more points than the competition. In business, as in sports, the focus is on creating the winning edge by training and inspiring players to reach their best performance levels. In the face of fierce global competition and decreasing job security, the rules of the game in American business are changing: the pressure to perform has escalated and the need for effective coaching is greater than ever. In Everyone's a Coach: Five Business Secrets for High-Performance Coaching two of America's most remarkable leaders - Don Shula, the winningest coach in pro football, and Ken Blanchard, the internationally known management consultant who has guided hundreds of corporations and organizations toward performance excellence - lay out a game plan for head coaches in all occupations.
In alternating chapters, passing the ball with championship finesse, Shula reveals his secrets of successful coaching and Blanchard pinpoints how they apply to any leadership position. Combining what Shula has been practicing and Blanchard has been teaching for more than three decades into the acronym COACH, they explore five essential strategies:
Conviction-driven: Shula's vision of winning every football game - and his belief that he can do it - underlies every decision and move he makes during practice and games alike. In 1972, his vision became a reality when the Miami Dolphins went the extra mile to emerge unbeaten for the season - and topped it off with a Super Bowl triumph. Ample proof, as Blanchard points out, that believing in your goal and doing the right thing for the right reasons provide the boundaries and direction that people need and want in order to perform well.
Overlearning: Great leaders pay attention to the details - whether they're supervising a hard-driving football team or the software division of a computer company. By insisting on over-preparation throughout the season, Shula arms his players with the skill and confidence they need to make the big play; his expectations for them are never in doubt. In business, leaders who encourage employees to master every assignment thoroughly and monitor their progress every step of the way will discover, as Shula has year after year, that high expectations reap high productivity. -- From the Publisher --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Description

Based on five key points symbolized by the acronym C.O.A.C.H.--Conviction-Driven, Overlearning, Audible Ready, Consistency, and Honesty--a winning coach and renowned management consultant offer a guide to success for any organization. 150,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo.

From the Back Cover

Are the people who report to you giving you their best? Is your team--whether a group of employees, a classroom of students, or your family--performing at its fullest potential? NFL coaching legend Don Shula and renowned business consultant Ken Blanchard team up in Everyone's a Coach to share their secrets for inspiring others to greatness. At the heart of their book is a simple acronym that describes the qualities of an effective leader: -Conviction-driven--never compromise your beliefs. - Overlearning--practice until it's perfect. - Audible-ready--know when to change. - Consistency--respond predictably to performance. - Honesty-based--walk your talk. Using an effective "tag-team" approach, Shula and Blanchard personally "unpack" the five leadership secrets behind this acronym. First, Shula tells you how each coaching concept worked on the field. Then, Blanchard explains how to apply that concept to your leadership situation. Complete with a self-test for measuring your personal coaching effectiveness, Everyone's a Coach will help you unleash the excellence in anyone. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Ken Blanchard is the coauthor of a number of best-selling books, including The One Minute Manager, which has sold more than 9 million copies. He is a much-sought-after consultant and speaker whose company trains Fortune 500 companies around the world on the principles of management.;Don Shula has led the Miami Dolphins to five Super Bowl appearances and the Baltimore Colts to one--more than any other head coach in the NFL. Sports Illustrated magazine named Shula its 1993 Sportsman of the Year in honor of his becoming the winningest coach in HFL history. Coach Shula announced his retirement in January, 1996, after 25 years as head coach of the Dolphins. 

Competing for the Future by Gary Hamel & C.K. Prahalad

Competing for the Future by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad (Paperback - Apr 1, 1996)

Elements of Legal Writing: A Guide to the Principles of Writing Clear, Concise, and Persuasive Legal Documents by Martha Faulk & Irving M. Mehler

Elements of Legal Writing: A Guide to the Principles of Writing Clear, Concise, and Persuasive Legal Documents by Martha Faulk & Irving M. Mehler

Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Longman; illustrated edition edition (May 11, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0028608399
ISBN-13: 978-0028608396

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... and it's all small stuff by Richard Carlson, Ph.D.

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... and it's all small stuff by Richard Carlson, Ph.D.

Paperback: 272 pages

Publisher: Hyperion; 1 edition (January 2, 1996)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 073380084X

ISBN-13: 978-0786881857

Amazon.com Review

Got a stress case in your life? Of course you do: "Without question, many of us have mastered the neurotic art of spending much of our lives worrying about a variety of things all at once." Carlson's cheerful book aims to make us stop and smell--if not roses--whatever is sitting in front of our noses. Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... offers 100 meditations designed to make you appreciate being alive, keep your emotions (especially anger and dissatisfaction) in proper perspective, and cherish other people as the unique miracles they are. It's an owner's manual of the heart, and if you follow the directions, you will be a happier, more harmonious person. Like Stairmasters, oat bran, and other things that are good for you, the meditations take discipline. Even so, some of the strategies are kind of fun: "Imagine the people in your life as tiny infants and as 100-year-old adults." The trouble is, once you start, it's hard to stop.

From Library Journal

Stress consultant Carlson reads his self-help guide with conviction, his gentle voice clear and persuasive. He presents common-sense advice for living a less hectic and more meaningful, loving life. His essential message is that we get caught up in minutiae, "the small stuff," and never get around to doing what makes us or our loved ones happy. He advises readers to engage in such small acts as paying someone a compliment daily, putting a lid on keeping track of who does what around the house, and writing a letter to a friend. Carlson urges small daily changes and uses examples of improvement from his own life to show how the advice works, making the book ideally suited to the audio format. Tape quality is excellent. Recommended for public libraries.?Nancy R. Ives, SUNY at Geneseo

Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Description

Braille edition of the popular bestseller. "Let go of the idea that gentle, relaxed people can't be super-achievers," advises Dr. Richard Carlson in his widely popular self-help book, DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF. In 100 chapters--each only a few pages long--Dr. Carlson shares his ideas for living a calmer, richer life. This book has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 38 weeks and is No. 3 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list. Two small volumes in braille.

About the Author

Best-selling author Richard Carlson, Ph.D., creator of the popular Don't Sweat the Small Stuff series and the just published Don't Get Scrooged, died suddenly of cardiac arrest enroute to New York on December 13. Carlson, 45, published his first book in 1985 and went on to publish more than 20 books that remain popular in English and in translation in 130 languages and 35 countries. Richard Carlson grew up in Piedmont, CA. He received his undergraduate degree from Pepperdine University and his Ph.D. in psychology from Sierra University. He was in private practice as a psychotherapist when he started to publish books about psychological and spiritual health. As his books started to attract a large audience, he began writing full time so he could teach more people how to live with presence and ease by cultivating gratitude and generosity. Dr. Carlson was a large supporter of and participant in the National Center for Family Literacy and at the time of his death he was working on a project with them called for "A Penny a Book" from publishers, authors and literary agents to promote literacy. Dr. Carlson is survived by his wife and life partner of 25 years, Kris Carlson, his co-author on Don't Sweat the Small Stuff in Love and the author of Don't Sweat the Small Stuff for Women, his loving daughters Jasmine and Kenna, sisters, Kathleen Carlson Mowris of Olympic Village, CA and Anna L. Carlson of La Selva Beach, CA, and his parents, Barbara and Don Carlson of Orinda, CA. A private memorial service will be held next week. Donations in lieu of flowers can be made in Richard's honor to local food banks, Challenge Day, Girls Inc. or Children Inc.

From AudioFile

Learning to live in the present, increasing stress tolerance, living each day as if it might be the last, and accepting imperfections consistently are a few of the lessons taught by Dr. Richard Carlson. Calm, convincing, confident and effective, Dr. Carlson stresses the importance of keeping life in perspective, allowing the important things to gain priority, resulting in a more satisfying and centered outlook. Carlson focuses on eliminating many of the complications unknowingly created by the average person. He emphasizes simplicity in daily living by abandoning externally caused stress. Listeners may want a "second listen" of this single-cassette program to ensure long-term results. B.J.P. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine 

The Entrepreneur's Complete Sourcebook by Alexander Watson Hiam & Karen Olander

Stories of Soul Pain, Death, and Healing by Michael Kearney

You Can Work Your Own Miracles by Napoleon Hill (Paperback - Sep 29, 1996)

Megatrends: Asia by John Naisbitt

Megatrends: Asia, - Hardcover (1996) by John Naisbitt

The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling by James Hillman

The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling by James Hillman


About the Book:-
Hardcover: 334 pages
Publisher: Random House; 1st edition (August 13, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0679445226
ISBN-13: 978-0679445227

Firnando Chau Review


Table of Contents:-
Epigraphs in Lieu of a Preface   
Chapter 1: In a Nutshell: The Acorn Theory and the Redemption of Psychology
Chapter 2: Growing Down
Chapter 3: The Parental Fallacy
Chapter 4: Back to the Invisibles
Chapter 5: "Esse Is Percipi": To Be Is to Be Perceived
Chapter 6: Neither Nature nor Nurture - Something Else
Chapter 7: Penny Dreadfuls and Pure Fantasy
Chapter 8: Disguise
Chapter 9: Fate
Chapter 10: The Bad Seed   
Chapter 11: Mediocrity   
Coda: A Note on Methodology
Notes
Bibliography   
Index

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Amazon.com Review



James Hillman, a former director of the Jung Institute who has written more than 20 books on behavior and psychology, delves into human development in The Soul's Code. Hillman encourages you to "grow down" into the earth, as an acorn does when it becomes a mighty oak tree. He argues that character and calling are the result of "the particularity you feel to be you" and knocks those who blame childhood difficulties for all their problems as adults. According to Hillman, "The current American identity as a victim is the flip side of the coin whose head brightly displays the opposite identity: the heroic self-made man, carving out destiny alone and with unflagging will." Hillman's theories seem disarmingly simple, but he backs them with a careful, well-practiced intellect.


From Publishers Weekly


Decades ago, pioneering Jungian analyst and author Hillman (Kinds of Power) challenged the assumptions of Western psychology by applying the ancient concept of "soul" to the modern psyche. Rendered in simpler terms by his protege, bestselling author Thomas Moore, Hillman's work on soul has fed the public imagination with the nourishing idea that we are vastly deeper and more permeable to the influences around us than we may think. Here, Hillman discusses character and calling, introducing an "acorn theory" that claims that "each life is formed by its unique image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny." 

Borrowing the language of Plato's Myth of Ur, Hillman suggests that this imaginary sense of our lives or callings drives each of us like a personal daimon or force. Drawing on extraordinary lives from Judy Garland to Coco Chanel to Hitler, he describes the movements of the daimon, showing how it can use everything in our environment, from lucky accidents to bad movies, to allow the acorn to "grow down" and express itself in the real material of our lives. 

Without succumbing to oversimplification or wishful thinking, Hillman challenges the reductive "parental fallacy"?the contention that our early experience with our parents determines our selves and our futures. The daimon, he says, pulls us up out of mere conditioning to have a fate. In this brilliant, absorbing work, Hillman dares us to believe that we are each meant to be here; that we are needed by the world around us. Simultaneous Random AudioBook; author tour. 
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

A world-renowned lecturer, teacher, author, Jungian analyst, and former director of the Jung Institute, James Hillman was born in New Jersey and spent much of his life in Europe. He is the author of over twenty books, translated into ten languages, including The Myth of Analysis and Reinventing Psychiatry (nominated for a Pulitzer in 1975). He lives in Thompson, Connecticut, and is the father of four.