Books to refresh your business and yourself

I love these books, and admire my brilliant colleagues who wrote them. They’re perfect Spring refreshers for your business and yourself. Click on the icons to go right to each book on Amazon. Enjoy!

Uncomplicating Management: Focus on Your Stars & Your Company Will Soar by Rick Dacri

Rick Dacri literally wrote the book on how to manage employees effectively. As we emerge from a devastating recession, employers need guidance with this post recession workplace. It is imperative that every effort, every person be productive every minute of the working day. Dacri minces no words in his recipe for managing successfully.

Dacri advises managers to “remove the deadwood” from their organizations. In this updated edition of his book he shows employers how to recognize the difference between star performers and problem employees, focus on the people who make their organizations work, and stop treating everyone the same. Dacri challenges managers to raise the bar in their organizations and to stop coddling the bottom. He teaches them how to hire, engage and retain star performers.

Uncomplicating Management provides insights to managers so that they can avoid problems and overcome challenges through the use of proven strategies developed by Dacri. The book provides a blueprint for eliminating workforce obstacles, improving long term performance issues, and protecting the organization from litigation.

This is a powerful guide to uncomplicating the art of managing people, providing straightforward advice that any manager in any sized organization can use on a daily basis. This book shows the reader how to make managing easy by “uncomplicating management”. Buy now!

Rick Dacri is the president and founder of Dacri & Associates, a consulting firm specializing in helping business owners and managers improve the performance and productivity of their organization and workforce. Dacri brings more than twenty five years of experience in senior management, organizational development, and human resources, all in one package. Dacri makes managing people less complicated by showing managers how they can effectively and easily engage their staff to its full potential. Visit Rick online at http://www.dacri.com.

Life Your Way by Amy Wood

“In this era of information overwhelm, staying open to new solutions to problems at home and work is no longer the issue. The key to adult growth and development is upgrading our capacity for coping with and capitalizing on a flow that is only going to become more frenzied and pervasive as technology advances. We can’t prevent the flow from gaining ground and force, but we can restructure and refine our existing strengths to better navigate and benefit from the onslaught. By establishing new strategies for success, strategies that draw out and fortify inner resources to calm the storm, we responsible adults can learn how to be in control, competent, confident, and complete–no matter how persuasive and persistent those professional and personal improvement appeals and antidotes become.” From Life Your Way.

In a genre that alternates between extremes of pseudo-mystical new-age fluff and inaccessible exercises in psychology that should come with a warning label, Amy Wood, an experienced psychologist and life coach in her own right has found the ground where reality meets expectations.

Wood knows from her own practice what works and what doesn’t when it comes to personal development. She understands intimately what people can handle and more important, what they’re willing to do. Using specific examples, she cuts to the heart of the matter and leads the reader through a logical sequence of steps that will make your journey to change manageable and satisfying. In each chapter she provides actionable steps to help you “Apply the Wisdom” that will help you get the results you’re looking for. Buy Now!

Think Like a Black Belt by Jim Bouchard

“When you hear the words Black Belt, you immediately think of other words like ‘as good as it gets’ and ‘the best.’  What does it take to actually be the best?  It takes a mindset – a way of thinking.  Jim, a real black belt himself, does a great job teaching you to be your best by obtaining the mindset that will propel you to excellence.  Read this book!”

Larry Winget
Television personality and 5 time New York Times/Wall Street Journal bestselling author
of Your Kids Are Your Own Fault and The Idiot Factor

“THINK LIKE A BLACK BELT is a much needed roundhouse kick to laziness and complacency for those of us who need that spark to make our dreams come true. Jim understands masterfully the age old premise that you have to THINK your way to a better life…by turning thoughts into positive action. Don’t just sit there…do something! Like reading this book, for starters! THINK LIKE A BLACK BELT will change the way you view success and bring your goals closer than they have ever been. No matter where you are in life, this book will nudge you along to the next level. A better you is just a few thoughts away.”

Spencer Hughes
Host of FOX ACROSS AMERICA, Foxnewstalk on XM & SIRIUS

Martial arts transformed Jim Bouchard’s self-perception from former drug abuser and failure to successful entrepreneur and Black Belt. As a speaker and author of Amazon bestseller Think Like a Black Belt, Jim tours nationally presenting his philosophy of Black Belt Mindset for corporate and conference audiences. He’s a regular guest on TV and radio programs including FOX News, BBC Worldview and FOX Across America.

Change the way you think about life, business and success forever. From now on…Think Like a Black Belt! Buy Now!

The Expert’s Edge by Ken Lizotte

Take your business to the next level! A “magic bullet” does exist!

• Become THE guru in your field
• Learn how to publish articles and even a book!
• Become a recognized public speaker
• Create a “client community” so you can raise your fees
• Use the internet creatively, wisely… effectively!

By becoming a “thought leader” in your target market, your business life will change forever. No more boom-and-bust, no more getting battered by the economy, no more losing out to your competition.

Your “expert’s edge” can push your business to the next level and keep you there. As a recognized thoughtleader, you’ll blow your competition away, make much more money, keep customers coming back (and sending you new ones)… and have fun! Buy Now!

Noble Enterprise
The Commonsense Guide to Uplifting People and Profits
by Darwin Gillett

If you want the insights, leadership tools – and inspiration – to create a noble enterprise and lead your people to new heights of performance, then this is the book for you.

We live in an era when people seek more meaning in their work, companies seek more effective ways to create sustainable growth and profitability, and society wonders if business will be about greed and unethical practices, or will play a positive role in society.  Meanwhile CEOs face the challenge of serving multiple stakeholders and the need to improve business performance – faster than ever. To respond to these challenges and to succeed in today’s business world, leaders need to create noble enterprises that draw forth and utilize the full range of human energies. Noble Enterprise shows how.

Noble Enterprise features the inspiring story of how one near-death company (losing one million dollars a day!) used the principles of Noble Enterprise to turn their company into an industry leader, in the process achieving huge leaps in employee morale, quality and market growth and profitability – all in just three years. Buy Now!

“Since 1989 I have read a minimum of 120 business books a year, and I can say without question that Noble Enterprise is one of the best I have ever read. Why? Because it does such an incredible job of getting to the heart and soul of what it takes to run a truly successful business in modern times.”

- John Spence
Executive Educator, Consultant & Speaker

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