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Getting Things DONE - The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Discover David Allen's powerful methods and vastly increase your personal organization, efficiency, and creative results-at work and in life.

David Allen
Penguin Books
$9.00 Paperback

In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. Veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares his breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country. Allen's premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective results and unleash our creative potential. From core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done can transform the way you work and live, showing you how to pick up the pace without wearing yourself down.

The Disney Way

Bill Capodagli & Lynn Jackson
The McGraw-Hill Companies
$12.89 Paperback

Dream, Believe, Dare, Do: These words reverberate across the decades of Disney achievement. Everything Walt did - every choice he made, every strategy he pursued - evolved from these four principles. And as the bedrock upon which his life and work rested, they naturally informed the basic values that dictated how he ran his company. Thus, the way in which the Walt Disney company trained and empowered its employees, managed creativity and innovation, and provided service to its customers were all influenced by this four-pillared philosophy.

Inside the Magic Kingdom - Seven Keys to Disney's Success

Tom Connellan
Bard Press
$13.60 Hardcover

The principles that drive the culture and phenomenal success of Disney are disclosed in this fun, easy-to-read book. It reveals seven key lessons that can be applied in any company and provides powerful examples that will help employees at any level become more customer focused. Along with discovering the seven keys behind Disney's success, you will learn many insider secrets that will make you a hero to your children and a fun traveling companion on your next trip to the Magic Kingdom!

Be Our Guest - Perfecting the Art of Customer Service

Disney Institute and Michael D. Eisner
Disney Enterprises
$30.25 Hardcover

All Organizations are driving toward the same goal - how best to serve the people who purchase their products and services. Whether they are called clients, customers, constituents, or, in Disney-speak, guests, they must be satisfied or risk being lost. Be Our Guest outlines proven Disney principles and processes for helping your organization focus its vision and assemble its people and infrastructure within a cohesive strategy that delivers on the promise of exceptional customer service.

Hit the Ground Running: A Woman's Guide to Success for the First 100 Days on the Job

Liz Cornish offers you the distilled advice of over 200 effective executives in a sharp, crisp, usable package

Liz Cornish
McGraw-Hill
$15.00 Hardcover

Are you an upwardly mobile woman tackling a new leadership challenge? Hit the Ground Running is the ultimate resource for the rising woman star - the go-to guide for those pivotal first months on the job, often the most critical, exciting, and vulnerable period in your career. If you are being promoted or transferred, taking over a new team or launching a new project, this book is for you.

The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees)

The author's fictional case study proves an involving vessel for his model and strategies

Patrick M. Lencioni
Jossey-Bass
$16.47 Hardcover

In his sixth and most anticipated fable, Pat takes on his most universal and human topic to date: the misery of work. In doing so, he presents managers and employees alike with a revolutionary yet simple model for making any job more rewarding and fulfilling.

Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance

Calls you to action and shows you how to apply your strengths for maximum success in work and life

Marcus Buckingham
Free Press
$19.80 Hardcover

With structured exercises that will become part of your regular work activities, web-enabled tools that allow you to put these lessons into practice immediately, and accounts of people who have successfully applied the book's lessons, Go Put Your Strengths to Work will arm you with a radically different approach to your work life.

SEND: The Essential Email Guide for Office and Home

David Shipley and Will Schwalbe have written an email style guide, an Emily Post for the cubicle set.

Two years ago, David Shipley, the Op-Ed editor of the Times, and Will Schwalbe, the editor-in-chief of Hyperion Books, were eating oysters in Grand Central Terminal and complaining about ill-considered e-mails they had recently received, and even sent. Before long, they found themselves cobbling together a system of proper usage and protocol. Now, with the publication of their book Send: "The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home, " they have put themselves forward as the genre's Strunk and White.

David Shipley & Will Schwalbe
Knopf
$13.57 Hardcover

The Wall Street Journal Complete Identity Theft Guidebook: How to Protect Yourself from the Most Pervasive Crime in America

In today's marketplace, your two most valuable assets are your credit and your identity; no one should be without this vital guide to protecting them.

Terri Cullen
Three Rivers Press
$11.16 Paperback

In two easy-to-understand sections, Terri Cullen, The Wall Street Journal's expert on identity theft, first walks you through the most common types of identity theft and how to arm yourself against them, and then leads victims step-by-step through the process of reclaiming a stolen identity. The average victim loses more than $6,000 and spends approximately 600 hours negotiating the complex bureaucracies and paperwork—this book will help save time and effort by laying out the process. And by following the advice in the first half, you may never need the second!