It is always painful to separate yourself from your paycheck and job. Sarah and Paul Edwards manage to help you make sense of this decision with pointed guides throughout the book. The book is a compilation of thoughts, ideas and tips on self-employment collected from various sources and organized into three main areas:

1. How to develop a new, self-reliant mindset
2. How to put your show on the road
3. How to literally become your own boss

This book functions well as a reference for the self-employed with useful tips ranging from how to explore independent business opportunities to managing your failures and successes. One would benefit from this book if used as a guide and reference when faced with an obstacle or encountering mental and emotional challenges.

I thought it was a good source of ideas to energize yourself and kick start your business.

This is one of the most interesting reads I have encountered in years on the subject of Coaching and Mentoring. Lou Tice managed to impart his knowledge and thoughts in 13 carefully organized chapters. The book is distinctively divided into two parts, where Part 1 outlines the personal mastery of a mentor and Part 2 gives in depth coverage on skills required by a mentor.

The uniqueness of this book is that it not only guides the reader to his/her own lifelong growth and development, but it also demonstrates how you can pass on what you have learnt through effective and inspiring mentoring of your employees, colleagues, friends and even children.

A must read for anyone who is committed to become an effective supervisor and is committed to his or her own growth and development.

The combinations of the methods to measure strengths with practical guidance on how to manage people from the employee standpoint, provides a healthy way to help people develop their maximum potential and become increasingly effective.

From the same author of "What they don’t teach you at Harvard Business School" comes a book on the principles of business. Mark concentrates mainly on the soft aspects of business which is hardly ever emphasized upon, yet is more critical to the success of an individual compared to the ‘hard aspects’.

From Marketing to Leadership, Office Politics to Acquiring a Power Base, Mark dishes out numerous practical principles and examples to showcase what it takes to succeed in the office environment today. A good read with many practical tips however clarity of the writing can be improved as the message he is trying to communicate can be a little muddled at times.

In this book, Jan Carlzon shares his success story of turning around the Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) from a USD20m losing company into a USD54m profit gaining organization. The key concept introduced is “Moments of Truth”, which are the times customers come into contact with an organization. The author shared new management theories and ideas, which are key success factors for organizations to be customer focused.

Readers of this book will find it easy to comprehend as the “story-telling” approach made it interesting. This is a must read for leaders of organizations who strive to become customer-driven in order to be successful in this economy wave.

Guinness is Guinness tells the story of how Guinnes became the brand and cultural icon that it is today. Readers are taken back in time to the beginnings of Guinness, and go through the events around the world that led to its success in becoming a global brand.

An interesting read, this book includes some of the most popular Guinness ads over the years as well as some background information on the marketing campaigns. Like its other counterparts in the Great Brand Stories Series (My Sister’s a Barista) the book’s story-telling style makes learning about this great brand enjoyable.

This book is about developing your creative potential at work. Each and every one of us have our own unique ways of expressing creativity.

The book speaks about three key points that will enhance and increase creativity:
1. Recognize your creative potential.
2. Develop the skills you need to exercise your potential.
3. Choose to use your creativity everyday.

It also emphasizes on the four types of innovative styles in expressing creativity at work and the different approaches towards challenges.

1. Modifying Style – People who are comfortable working with facts and seek solutions by applying methods that have worked in the past.

2. Visioning Style – People who seek solutions that focus on maximizing potential through their vision.

3. Experimenting Style – People who seek solutions by gathering facts and opinions before making a decision. They experiment with trial and error.

4. Exploring Style – People who seek solutions by gathering information and continuously look at new angles of approach.

In order to have an effective team in your organization, it is important to discover your team members’ style. It will help to increase team work and enhance team effectiveness.

Born with a minor disability, Michel was abused by an alcoholic father who could not accept that he had “failed.” As a result, he lived a secluded childhood fighting an overwhelming fear of rejection. One day, a quote from Thoreau inspired him, “Do what you fear and the death of that fear is certain.” Ultimately, Michel became the top sales producer for a Fortune® 500 company.

The main points shared in this book are:
• How to position your product or firm above the competition in the mind of your market.

• How to change your approach from being in business to being the business of choice.

• How to harness the power of perception and claim superiority without stating it outright.

• How to have people remember you or your product by making it stick firmly in the mind.

• How to choose the right media and where to find free (or low cost) publicity opportunities.

• How to create strategic marketing alliances that send you and keep sending you leads.

The book is packed full of powerful marketing secrets that will help you and your business enhance its image and increase business effortlessly!.

This book provides us with insights into the required skills and spirit of an entrepreneur. It speaks of the business knowledge and works as a step by step manual in setting up as well as maintaining the success of an entrepreneur’s business.

With or without professional experience, money or no money, this book will teach you how to enjoy being your own boss and bring your business idea to life.

Organizations today emphasize on performance, qualifications, quality and many other key performance criteria. As a team member, we have the responsibility to learn, perform and deliver results. The question is: How do we manage our own development?

This book highlights some techniques in planning and organizing our own self-managed personal development. To help us plan and organize, a checklist and forms planners are provided in this book for us as a guideline.

The book provides insights into making work fun and a place to enhance our personal development.

This book is probably one of the most comprehensive with regard to DiSC, a personality test. It explains in detail the various personalities that we adopt depending on our environment. Each of these personalities has its own characteristic with their own preferences for doing things, acting or reacting to a situation. The book also provides a simple but accurate test for us to determine our own personality and for us to learn more about ourselves. More importantly it teaches us how to react to other personalities, for us to develop our own skills in handling others. A must read for anyone interested in personality profiling.

This book provides modern techniques for dynamic presentation and communication. Part I of the book introduces readers to the fundamentals of effective speaking. This is followed by delivery methods for meetings, business presentation, speeches and talks. The challenges of effective speaking are shared in the last section of this book.

Readers ultimately will learn practical techniques on enhancing one’s speaking and communication skills in every situation.

This book is about the combination of effective communication and creative problem solving towards our work. There are three areas that will improve our communications skills and improve our approach to doing things. It consist lots of tips and techniques in structuring questions that will guide us to manage our work effectively.

This book has provided some guides to evaluate the employees’ attitude, skills and goals towards the working environment. We can also benefit from the specific tips on staying power, being alert of the opportunities and to be realistic about the situation at the work place.

Further more, it pointed out the realities and revelations about our past and future. We are the only one that can decide for ourselves about our career.

All Business is Show Business tells on how times have changed, and people (both customers and employees) will no longer remain loyal to an organization because of a superior product or exception quality or good customer service. Customers & employees alike are now all looking for an emotional connection, an experience of which can be related and repeated. This book is all about how to adopt that mindset and of strategies on how to create the experience for customers to relate to. Just like how the title goes, All Business is Show Business. Capturing & entertaining the customers & employees, getting customers & employees to want to repeat it all, all of it is encompassed in this book.

A-must read for entrepreneurs and managers at all levels of hierarchy if they want to build on loyal customers and employees.