Tools Books

This book is well organized with specific suggestions to initiate and maintain positive change in the workplace. It is hopeful; it speaks of respect. It holds many, many ideas for improvement of relationships and work productivity . I very highly recommend its reading.

Chambers shows ways that managers can identify underlying employee behavior problems and the steps to take and skills needed to make positive changes. The book includes a self-assessment for rating management style and organizational environment, twelve key questions for analyzing causes of problems, and many more very applied guidelines. This is a highly useful-recommended. A great book for people who manage people.

I found this book to be extremely helpful for diagnosing problematic behavior and sound advice as to methods of correcting it. I have shared this book with many of my managers and they are converts!

This is one of my favorite books in the whole world! Makes learning about God relevent in life and fun! I converted the lessons for a bigger group and used them in Sunday School, too.

This book is so easy to use you wonder why you didn't get one of this series before. With only a few props and minimum preparation before you can have a great family night. Your children will really have fun and because of that they will remember what they have learned. Every family should have some time each week to reconnect with each other. This books shows you how to share some great concepts of the christian faith and good character while you do this. It is fun for both parents and children. Even if you know nothing about theology or teacher training you will be able to carry out these fun events with your family. Don't put off family nights anymore. Get this book or one of the others in the series and get started.

Excellent book for teaching/ learning basic Christian concepts. We have four kids and like yours, they are an energetic crew. This book gave us really cool, really clever ideas on how to teach what otherwise would be boring 'Lessons from Dad and Mom'. We've really had a ball. Family fun without videos or, dare we say it, TV. Definitely rated 'G' for Grrrreat. I'd recommend this easy to read book to anyone who is interested in making certain their kids have the basic knowledge/ experience necessary to build a life centered on the God of the Bible. My compliments to the authors... Thank you for making a difference.

Kathryn writes beautifully and makes her point clearly with entertaining marketing examples and analogies we are all familiar with. I was expecting a technical book for people trained in "marketing." This book is so applicable to anyone who has a product or service. Some of the principles suggested can be incorporated immediately into daily communication without further investment. I had no idea how much I'd get out of it.

This is not your average marketing book - this book offers you the steps you need to take to build your message, create a strategy, set a budget, and then execute your plan. Very few books (on ANY subject) are so well laid out that you can follow the steps to success. A must read for any small business owner.

I thought I knew about marketing and advertising, but Kathy Hendershot-Hurd has me beat. She knows how to market a product or service and she makes the process of figuring it out fun and interesting. If you want to learn how to market your small business, Kathy takes you through the process of figuring out who your customer is, what their problem is, and how to solve it for them. All the basics are here, in an engaging style, with lots of interesting and informative examples.
When you finish this book, you will understand the underlying pronciples behind creating a successful marketing strategy and message. She makes it sound simple: just follow the fules as she lays them out, and you've got it.

You will find in this inexpensive book everything you need to know; save yourself the money of buying all those expensive marketing books and just buy this one.

This book has to be the best general guide for cycling. It takes you through all the steps of how to buy the bike that suits you, what accessories to get and what not to waste money on. It also explains how to setup your bike properly before you take your first ride. All in an easy to understand everyday English. I would recommend only to beginners, but veterans may find some useful information as well.

This book is a very good tool for those who are thinking of buying a bike, either for pleasure or for serious exercise. It covers everything from how to find a bike that fits you, to what accessories you really need, to how to plan an exercise program once you get the bike, to how to repair it yourself. And not only is it a good resource, but it's also a pleasure to read! Allen St. John is a funny writer who really enjoys his subject, making the book easy to read and very entertaining- it makes you want to go out and buy a bike the very second you start reading it!

This is the best book I've seen on bicycling. From describing all the different parts and components to accessories to fitting a bike to repairing and fixing basic problems, this book does it all. Covers many aspects of bicycling. Highly, highly recommended! If you are buying your first book on bicycling or if your just want to know more, this is the book for you!

If you are interested in mining meaning from the deepest veins of your dreams, then Box of Dreams is a powerful prospecting tool. It goes beyond the standard symbol guide by challenging you to consider your dream images and story from archetypal, psychological, shamanic and other perspectives. The artwork of the dream cards is evocative and talismanic, and the cards themselves help you make quick assessments about your dream that you can then delve into using the information and questions in the book. What I like most about Box of Dreams is that it helps you be interpretative without sacrificing respect for the power and mystery of the dreaming self.

A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated set for those who seek the key to their subconscious or for those who simply have a dream that stays with them and want to delve a little deeper. Box of Dreams will inspire and entertain...

The subtitle of this book says it all: "Tools for Interpretation." What I really like about this book and card set is that it gives me the tools to think about my dreams. It's like teaching someone how to fish rather than giving them a fish. Too many other books on dreaming provide shallow interpretations that remind me of bad horoscopes. This approach has much more integrity. The dream symbol cards are excellent. The authors draw on all sorts of interesting sources to put together a very thorough overview of the dream subject's symbolism. The "In Your Dreams" section on the cards includes helpful questions that get you thinking deeply about what the symbol might mean within the very personal context of your dream. And the artwork on the cards is hauntingly beautiful. The book is also very helpful. I especially liked the chapter on symbols and archetypes, and the instructions for using the cards are very clear and helpful. All in all, an excellent book and card set and a must-have for anyone interested in exploring their dreams.

Joe Farcht is a highly sought after executive coach. His corporation, Leadership Advantage, Inc., has worked with clients such as Boeing, Discover Card and Wells Fargo.

Farcht has developed a system that changes people's attitudes and behaviors, and helps them to achieve 30%-100% increase in their business productivity. His book, Building Personal Leadership, is a way for Farcht to share this knowledge with the world.

The book covers a wide range of topics including: time management, organization, developing the right attitude and effective communication. Farcht discusses success and shows the reader why continuing our personal development is essential to a successful life. He states, "Conscious personal development does not end with High School or with the first job you take. Mental toughness and agility come from being engaged in work and life and learning and developing more of your potential."

I learned a lot from Building Personal Leadership. It challenged me to reach beyond my current knowledge and skills to fulfill my potential. Farcht gives practical advice as well as the reasoning behind his theories. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to get ahead, either in the corporate world or as an entrepreneur.

Review by Jill Hart, CWAHM.com

Written by Master Personal and Executive Coach Joe Farcht, Building Personal Leadership: Inspirational Tools & Techniques for Work & Life is a self-help guide packed cover to cover with tips, tricks, and techniques for cultivating leadership ability in oneself, and greater success in one's work and life. From improving personal productivity through prioritization, organization, and communication, to overcoming barriers to success ranging from inner fear to outside resistance, Building Personal Leadership is applicable to readers amid a diversity of careers and life goals. "If you want to grow more than you are now, set a few goals in one or more of the six areas of your life. Then fill out a goal sheet. Plan how to achieve your goals. Communicate your goals, measure your progress, and lastly, pause to celebrate your growth, success, and life." An excellent, resolve-building guide.

Reviewed by Cherie Fisher for Reader Views (6/07)

"Building Personal Leadership" is an excellent choice for anyone who wants to improve their personal and professional performance. The author, Joe Farcht, has years of experience teaching this subject, so he certainly has the expertise to write a book on it. He is a certified Master Personnel and Executive Coach and an expert in the Myers-Briggs Personality Typing. The author obviously loves what he does for a living and has built a wonderful life based on following his own principles.

I really liked the approach that the author used in writing this book. He really understands that to get people to perform at the top of their game they really need to understand their own motivating factors. The first section of the book deals with your own personal goals and the importance of writing them down. Once you understand why you are doing what you are then you can begin to hone your skills and work at your peak performance.

The section on Time Management was my favorite as that is one of my biggest challenges at work. For those of us that can do a better job at this, he already is ahead of us with a list of why our arguments about why it won't work are useless. I am really trying to use the skills from the section to better organize my time and work more effectively.

"Building Personal Leadership" contains a lot of tools and techniques to improve performance on all levels. The chapters address time management, self development, communication skills and putting together an effective team to name just a few. I read it through quickly the first time and now I am going back to go through each chapter more thoroughly, following the exercises and really digesting the information before moving on. By doing this, I am finding that I am making small incremental steps that will lead to big changes in the end.

"Building Personal Leadership" is a very effective tool for improving work skills and efficiency. As he points out "it is said that the Chinese definition of insanity is `doing the same things you have always done, you will get what you have always gotten.'" Anyone interested in reading a book like this obviously wants to get out of the insanity and into being a top performer.

I have cookbooks with beautiful, inspirational pictures, and lousy recipes; and I have cookbooks with no pictures and great recipes, but this book has both incredible pictures and fantastic, tasty recipes. It has everything from "safe" chicken curries to the slightly bizzare. I love it!

I've had great success with this cookbook. Receipes, ingredient lists and culinary techniques are very explicit and easily followed. The work in the kitchen is neither simple nor quick; these receipes are not shortcuts. But the results have been very rewarding.

There are so many curry cookbooks already on the market today - most from India - that one might wonder at the need for yet another primer on the subject, but COOKING CURRIES offers a different focus which shows curry can be more than a hot or spicy dish, providing recipes for sweet and sour dishes alike, creating variations on traditional curry flavors, and adding new ingredients to encourage cooks to experiment. Author Lawson has over twenty years experience as a professional chef: COOKING CURRIES reflects this background well, adding historical and cultural notes to the recipes and discussing how different international influences have altered curry dishes.

A comprehensive primer for software, internet, and e-commerce entrepreneurs. If you're new to the business, you'll find every chapter chock-full of critical information. And even if you're a "pro," you'll be amazed at how much you learn.

Cracking the New E-conomy has been a great help in developing strategies for my new company. I was not looking for an IPO homerun but this book has given me some great insights that have caused me to rethink my goals entirely. I really like the fact that I was gathering advice from 60 plus professionals rather than just one. It was like attending a weeklong conference without the cost. A great investment!

If only this book had been available 18 months ago when I set out into the world of high-tech entrepreneurialism! Not only would I have done things different - I would have done them smarter and quicker. This book contains, in a very easy read, everything you need to get your business venture up and running. The writers know their stuff and are happy to share it. They address issues that I did not even know to look out for, and they do so in a very readable way. Buy this book - even if your venture is not in high tech.

Strongly recommended reading, Customer Satisfaction: Tools, Techniques, And Formulas For Success by Craig Cochran (Project Manager, Center for International Standards & Quality, Georgia Tech Economic Development Institute) is a slim, 93-page compilation of observations, advice, and techniques for proactively gauging customer perceptions and then aggressively acting on the findings thereby acquiring a competitive advantage in today crowded and rapidly evolving markets. Tools and specific instructions are laid out in a thoroughly "user friendly" manner and range from the very basic to the rather sophisticated. Informed and informative, Customer Satisfaction is one of those easily assimilated compilations that will rapidly translate to an improved bottom line regardless of the nature of a businesses products or services.

There were three things I really liked about this book: 1) Every page had something of value on it. There's no filler. I never found myself turning a page and asking, `what the heck did I just read?' 2) The customer satisfaction concepts were presented in the most simple manner possible. Anybody at any level of a company can understand and use the book. Right now, my V.P. of Operations and one of my 18 year old co-op students are reading it, and they're both getting some good ideas. 3) The book includes a wide range of tools, along with instructions on how to use and how not to use each one.

In summary, this is a good, practical book you can start using before you're even done reading it.

If you're looking for a bunch of heavy, theoretical philosophizing on customer satisfaction, then you'll hate this book. If you're looking for practical, common-sense methods for understanding what customers think and doing something about it, then you'll love it. I found this book to be the most clear and concise guide yet for actually doing something to improve customer satisfaction. My company has already begun using two of the methods, with very good results. Highly recommended.

The title really says it all - delivered really quickly and in great condition.

This is a great book. I reccomend it to anyone who is interested in the history of the leather industry, or who is interested in getting into leather crafts. It is very informative and gives you an idea on what kinds of tools are used in leather work and how they are used. It makes a great reference source. It givr you an idea on what kinds of tools you'll need for the differnt kinds of leather trades.

Look at all the nifty tools!

We just received our copy yesterday, and I expect my husband and I will be competing for it until one of manages to get through it from cover to cover. As the title implies, the author covers almost any tool you could think of used for leather working in the last 2.5 centuries, including things like workbences and stools. :) The book is arranged by trade - bookbinding, boot and shoe making, skinningk, tanning, finishing, etc, with the tools alphabetical by general type within each trade. Some of the descriptions are very brief, and the author spends more time in explanations of how more obscure tools are/were used than for common ones - which makes sense. Definitely enjoyable for the confirmed tool junkie.