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I loved this book. Whitney uses great examples and a sharp tongue to expose many of the myths of our current management thinking. It is laugh-out-loud funny at points, and his writing style flows very well. There is some very good theory in here.

This book is wonderful. It gives you insight into how not to be so overly focused on money on earth, but to store treasure in heaven.

My only hope is that this author, Pastor Mike Ware of Victory Church in Denver, Colorado will write several more books, because no question, he is gifted to do so.

This is an incredible book for organizations that want to maximize volunteer resources.

If you are continuously disgruntled and frustrated at work, this is one of those books you will say "why couldn't I have found this 10 years ago".

You've heard the line, "sticking it to the man." Well, Robert Townsend was the man. As a top executive at Avis, Hertz, and American Express his good nature and not-so-common sense saved these companies. This is an anthology book with a series of moral lessons for managers everywhere---read it! Read his second book too: "Further Up the Organization." In the second book, he recounts how as an executive at American Express he was rebuffed by an accountant. He explained that he needed to buy one of those new fangled (it was the 70's) calculators for an accounts manager. He then added that the calculator would pay for itself in minutes with what it would save AMEX. Without blinking, the accountant said, "If it's not in your budget, you can't have it." Townsend just said, "Oh," and started writing a memo. After a few minutes, he handed it to the accountant. He said,"Sign here." The accountant looked at it and exclaimed,"This is your resignation! I'm not signing that." Townsend said, "Yes you are." Then, he said, "When I resign I am going to hand this memo to my boss, the CEO. He's going to want to know why I resigned and I want to tell him." The accountant turned gray. Townsend got his calculator. You will find amusing and interesting stories in both books. What he said then rings true today. If only we had executives like him today. Instead, we have people like Lay, Skilling, and Fastow: only out for themselves, with egos the size of the mansions they aspire to own.

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Judith McQuown has put all of the winning strategies for making your corporation make you money in one accurate, hard-hitting book.

Finally there is a well-tested method for investing in commodity futures with reduced risk, based on the logic of fundamental factors rather than the fancy footwork of technical predictions. This book is well-written and clear, and brings us the straight-forward trading system successfully developed by Robert Weist in the 1970's.

A must read for those who have realised the link between values and success in their organisation and are looking for practical implementation advise.
If you are planning to take your organisation down the path of becoming values based. This is book should be mandatory reading. The authors are practising practitioners and share their experiences in an outstanding book giving practical applications and advise. If you've read Built to Last by Collins & Porras and your appetite has been wet then this book tells you how to do it..

Today, more and more business leaders are beginning to realize that it's not enough to just make a buck, but that their business legacy should be something more -- something that does lasting good for customers and communities. In their book, Values Sell, authors Nadine Thompson and Angela Soper provide numerous real-world examples of companies -- including Tom's of Maine, Seventh Generation, Honest Tea, and many others -- that are living their values, making a good profit, and transforming people all at the same time. If you're a business owner, executive, or manager wondering how to turn your purpose into profit, this is the book for you. And if you're an employee who hopes to influence your own company and move it in a more socially responsible direction, this too is the book for you. Highly recommended.

This Ventriloquist Autobiography is definitely worth a look! Starting at the Major Bowes and Ted Mack Amateur Shows, we get a look not only at the life of this well known actor/ventriloquist, but also a brief history of the subject, when various priests would "throw their voice", and suggest that some inanimate object was speaking. In late 1800's this entertainment hit it big in the vaudeville era, and the large person-like speaking figure came about, like the old automatons. The author visited a London show with a patient in bed, along with a nurse, and was astounded to find the patient was really a speaking dummy! Can you really "throw" your voice? No, this is an illusion, the trick being to do it when the audience is looking at the dummy, or other object. Through speech diagrams, we learn the techniques, and there are even special pictures showing how to build your own dummy. Also, some photos of the writer/artist at work building and repairing his "friends"; plus black and white photos, including one with the author and Edgar Bergen, perhaps the most famous ventriloquist of them all!