Life Of E's

Jay, Joelle. The Inner Edge: The 10 Practices of Personal Leadership This may be my favorite book of 2009 – and on into 2010.  WOW!  Dr. Joelle Jay is a master coach who has worked with executives around the country.  The insights and wisdom she has provides in this book, along with the tools available [...]

Tags: book review, innner edge, Joelle Jay, leadership, personal development

Buckingham, Marcus & Donald O. Clifton. Now, Discover Your Strengths. I cannot recommend this book enough and even though it’s not a time/paper management book per se, it is because of their research-based philosophy that we need to spend our time, energy, efforts, and lives doing what we do best and helping those around us [...]

Tags: book review, Donald O. Clifton, Marcus Buckingham, strenghts, strength

Book Recommendations – Email Hurst, Mark.  Bit Literacy:  Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload. I have been buying this book in large quantities and have now used it in several workshops and have given it to many of my consulting clients.  Not only do I love the way this guy writes (he’s very [...]

Tags: Bit Literacy, book review, email, email management, Mark Hurst

Hallowell, Edward, CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Handling Your Fast-Paced Life. The title alone is probably intriguing to you – and once you read it, you will have a new perspective on whether your life is CrazyBusy and if that’s the way you want to keep it.  Hallowell, who has studied [...]

Tags: book review, crazy busy, Edward Hallowell, overbooked, overstretched

Kossek, Ellen Ernst & Lautsch , Brenda A.  CEO of Me. I read this book in preparation for a day-long workshop I was going to be doing at Michigan State University as part of a symposium on Work-Life Balance.  The first author was one of the symposium presenters. This book is fabulous and I’ve bought at [...]

Tags: book review, Brenda A. Lautsch, CEo, Ellen Ernst Kossek

 Braiker, Harriet. The Disease to Please. Dr. Braiker’s first book (that I read) was The Type E Woman (for the woman who tries to be everything to everyone). Let’s just say I found a few tidbits in there for myself and for others I knew. So when this particular book came out, I bought it [...]

Tags: book review, disease, disease to please, Harriet Braiker, people pleasers

Buckingham, Marcus. GO Put Your Strengths to Work:  6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance.. Marcus Buckingham is the face of the strengths movement.  His earlier books that he wrote while with the Gallup Organization helped propel him to rock star status.  Plus, he’s a fabulous speaker and communicator and thinker (and yes, he’s handsome, [...]

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Book Recommendations – Personal Growth Who doesn’t want to get better and be able to put their emphasis on excellence?  The people who visit this site know what I mean!  We love to learn and grow.  Here are some books that I grouped under the category of ‘personal growth’ – and they are about professional [...]

Tags: book review, Linda Babcock, negotiation, power of negotiation, Sara Laschever, women

 Rath, Tom.  StrengthsFinder 2.0. After Marcus Buckingham left the Gallup Organization to start his own company (and write his own book….GO Put Your Strengths to Work:  6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance), then it was important for Gallup to publish a new book on the Strengths work that they have continued to do.  And [...]

Tags: book review, Gallup Organization, strength, StrengthsFinder, Tom Rath

Julie Morgenstern, who has written MANY excellent books, has a new one (at least I’m just now getting around to reading it) called SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life: A Four-Step Guide to Getting Unstuck .  I heard her speak at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference of Professional Organizers where I was also a speaker.  She [...]

Tags: book review, identity, Julie Morgenstern, shed, trash, treasures